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bemildred

(90,061 posts) Thu Aug 27, 2015, 05:38 AM Aug 2015

This Is How China and Russia Plan to Crush America's Stealth Aircraft

Both China and Russia appear to be building unmanned aerial vehicles designed to negate America’s advantages in stealth aircraft.

Earlier this year, photos first emerged of a new High Altitude, Long Endurance (HALE) UAV termed the Divine Eagle that foreign observers believe is designed to detect and eliminate stealth enemy aircraft far from the Chinese mainland.

As Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer wrote back in May:

“[The Divine Eagle’s] long range anti-stealth capabilities can be used against both aircraft, like the B-2 bomber, and warships such as the DDG-1000 destroyer. Using the Divine Eagle as a picket, the Chinese air force could quickly intercept stealthy enemy aircraft, missiles and ships well before they come in range of the Mainland. Flying high, the Divine Eagle could also detect anti-ship missile trucks and air defenses on land, in preparation for offensive Chinese action.”

http://www.nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/how-china-russia-plan-crush-americas-stealth-aircraft-13708

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This Is How China and Russia Plan to Crush America's Stealth Aircraft (Original Post) bemildred Aug 2015 OP

Technology will continue to evolve Sherman A1 Aug 2015 #1

or a world where wars have like 50 dead but cost $3T a pop MisterP Aug 2015 #2

Sherman A1

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1. Technology will continue to evolve

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Thu Aug 27, 2015, 06:08 AM

Aug 2015

and it may eventually a battle between drones. One hopes that someday we can all learn to live in a peaceful world where money is not spent on the instruments of war.

MisterP

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2. or a world where wars have like 50 dead but cost $3T a pop

Reply to Sherman A1 (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 27, 2015, 02:03 PM

Aug 2015

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