Whilst on the thread about using 20000 fishing boats for anti-submarine warfare, someone brought up the topic of air superiority over Chinese coastal waters, as it would be required to protect those fishing boats.
Now, as we all know, the best place to destroy a plane is when it is a sitting duck on the ground.
Alternatively, the runway or flight deck can be disabled, so that aircraft can no longer take off or land.
So we see today, an array of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and long-range rockets have been developed to do this.
But inevitability there will be some opposing fighters in the air.
So I'm thinking that Chinese AWACS and fighter jets would be good enough and numerous enough to establish air superiority over any opposing Air Force - except for the presence of stealth fighters who could operate with ease against them.
So stripping away the stealth is key.
Given that 80% of radar stealth is about how the shape of the aircraft has been optimised to ensure radar waves are reflected away from the direction of the radar sender/receiver, the Swedes came up with the idea of having 900 ground-based transmitters, so that some radio waves would always be reflected from a stealth aircraft back to a radar receiver.
This radar receiver system held a model of all the expected radio emissions, and with some processing power, could track the route of a stealth airplane.
The beauty was that the 900 radio transmitters only cost $10000 each, and are so cheap that they are throwaway.
So can this concept be applied to the coastal waters near China with:
1. Say 10000 wooden tubs with an anchor to hold those throwaway transmitters.
2. A Type-52D air defense destroyer to act as silent radar receiver with a lot of processing power to track a stealth aircraft
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Alternatively, could this be implemented with an aerial version, as the F-22 looks like it has a lot of curved radar-reflecting surfaces on the top of the airplane.
I'm thinking of cheap airships like the one DARPA had built for $1million to act as the throwaway platform, which the Chinese could get down to say $500K
Or maybe a fishing boat could tow a much cheaper air blimp for say $100K
Then there would be a $200million AWACS aircraft operating silently in receiver mode, instead of broadcasting its presence and being shot down.
Or possibly a dedicated receiver aircraft could be used, which would cost less as it doesn't have to transmit.
These airborne transmitters can be easily shot down, but I'm thinking that the air-to-air missiles would cost more than the airships or air blimps.
So it would be a case of attrition warfare between balloons and missiles, tying up a very limited number of stealth fighters.
Now, as we all know, the best place to destroy a plane is when it is a sitting duck on the ground.
Alternatively, the runway or flight deck can be disabled, so that aircraft can no longer take off or land.
So we see today, an array of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and long-range rockets have been developed to do this.
But inevitability there will be some opposing fighters in the air.
So I'm thinking that Chinese AWACS and fighter jets would be good enough and numerous enough to establish air superiority over any opposing Air Force - except for the presence of stealth fighters who could operate with ease against them.
So stripping away the stealth is key.
Given that 80% of radar stealth is about how the shape of the aircraft has been optimised to ensure radar waves are reflected away from the direction of the radar sender/receiver, the Swedes came up with the idea of having 900 ground-based transmitters, so that some radio waves would always be reflected from a stealth aircraft back to a radar receiver.
This radar receiver system held a model of all the expected radio emissions, and with some processing power, could track the route of a stealth airplane.
The beauty was that the 900 radio transmitters only cost $10000 each, and are so cheap that they are throwaway.
So can this concept be applied to the coastal waters near China with:
1. Say 10000 wooden tubs with an anchor to hold those throwaway transmitters.
2. A Type-52D air defense destroyer to act as silent radar receiver with a lot of processing power to track a stealth aircraft
===
Alternatively, could this be implemented with an aerial version, as the F-22 looks like it has a lot of curved radar-reflecting surfaces on the top of the airplane.
I'm thinking of cheap airships like the one DARPA had built for $1million to act as the throwaway platform, which the Chinese could get down to say $500K
Or maybe a fishing boat could tow a much cheaper air blimp for say $100K
Then there would be a $200million AWACS aircraft operating silently in receiver mode, instead of broadcasting its presence and being shot down.
Or possibly a dedicated receiver aircraft could be used, which would cost less as it doesn't have to transmit.
These airborne transmitters can be easily shot down, but I'm thinking that the air-to-air missiles would cost more than the airships or air blimps.
So it would be a case of attrition warfare between balloons and missiles, tying up a very limited number of stealth fighters.
