Russia - threadbanned users in OP

No I know that. I didn't mean to imply such.

Truth.

It seems you missed my point, @cnocbui (too stealthy, perhaps? 😉). I've been following the B-21 Raider program for quite some time and I'm aware that it is generally following the concept set out by the B-2, i.E. a flying wing design with a small central fuselage to house engines, weapons bay, landing gear and cockpit. I also know about the weakness of the design. While it is edge-on, the radar signature is indeed spectacularly small, however that rarely happens in real life. Most radars will be either below or above a B-2 and from such a perspective, the radar cross-section is going to be considerably larger, not least due to the enormous wing span. The same goes when the bomber is turning, climbing or descending. A B-2 flying a tight wing-tip turn can still produce a radar signature the size of the Cliffs of Moher. In addition, multiple synchronised radar sites working together could very well overwhelm the B-2's stealth features and still get a target lock onto it. I know that there has been a lot of work in that field over the last twenty or so years.

Moreover, when it comes to transport aircraft, the B-2 approach simply will not work. Yes, the C-130 has a smaller wingspan, but its fuselage is a lot more massive than the small bomb bay and crew compartment on the B-2, or the B-21 for that matter. If you want to have even a remotely similar cargo capacity in a "stealthy" air frame, you're going to need to address that fuselage and the radar cross-section it produces. That's the big issue here.

As for "active" stealth, that is naturally an option, but given that many modern weapons such as the US AIM-120 AMRAAM or the Russian Vympel R-77 both have a "home on jam" mode that allows them to directly target jamming sources, this approach could very well backfire.

I'm not ruling out the possibility that such a design might be feasible, but it would have to be a complete clean-sheet design rather than just a simple redesign of the flying barn that is the C-130 Hercules. And even with a clean-sheet design, the engineering effort required is going to be significant and probably more trouble than it is worth for a design that would see in all likelihood no more than a dozen or two built.

This is better translated as “Freedom to Russia”, I think (although more or less the same thing).

Active stealth isn't the same as jamming. Jamming is overwhelming part of the elctromagnetic spectrum with a strong signal. Active stealth by reverse phase cancellation of a waveform would by the very principle with which it operates, effectively produce no signal to home in on. The reverse phase signal would be of very low power to exactly match that of the reflected radar signal, which given the inverse-square law of radiated power diminution throgh geometric dillution, is very small.

I'm sure you will find this of some interest: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25813/the-mysterious-saga-of-americas-hunt-for-a-stealth-special-operations-transport-part-2

The US managed to have stealth black hawks magically to-hand when they had a location for Osama Bin Laden.

I previously posted that Putin will probably resort to chemical weapons should his pending major assault to the east of Ukraine flounder, become too prolonged or fail. Some military analysts are now of the opinion that this could indeed happen.

These could be choking agents such as phosgene which attacks the lungs and respiratory system, mustard gas which burns the skin and blinds people, and lethal nerve agents which scramble the brain's messages to the body's muscles.

True, Putin has shown every other hallmark of Hitler. Why not that level of stupidity too.

According to Biden, it’s Genocide… hard to argue against this…

how to deescalate it ?

i don’t think that’s possible… Putin and Russia attacks of a genocidal level on and in The Ukraine…threatening everyone else…

what next ?

im honestly typing this as no kind of expert but how the fûck is WW3 avoidable from where we are now ?

The Ukraine is bordered by nations including Poland , Slovakia and Hungry, ALL EU members…

Russia has stated and threatened bad intent on numerous occasions towards the EU…Russia is heading west.

Josep Borell of the EU has already stated.. “ faced with Russian threats, the EU must stay firm and above all act “

Who is Borrell ? he is the high representative of the EU for foreign affairs and security policy and Vice President of the European Commission.

Take more then the EU, but I’ve a feeling it’s coming to the time or now IS where a de-escalating is no longer probable or possible.

how does one stop Russia ? A conventional war ? No, it’s going to be nuclear…. Got to be, strike fast, hard and accurately…

The moment a tangible threat is ventured towards the West, the EU as isn’t far off, something will need to be done.

we are listening to threatening rhetoric…. Same threatening rhetoric was used against the Ukraine by Moscow

its probably time to hit Russia, WW3 ? Kinda is already no ? China ramping up the rhetoric against the US / EU and indeed Taiwan closer to home…. A country of 23 million….

then there is the Biden factor, all the look of a man who’d rather be anywhere but where he is, just months from being an octogenarian and looks like he wanted the seaside of Cape Cod not the hot seat of the white house. Not decisive not deterring.

Outsiders order pizzas for the soldiers in Ukraine.

Never even crossed my to do anything like this.

Brilliant.

People buying tickets for the zoos to help the animals.

Dolphinariums too needing funding to feed the animals there.

(dolphins sourced from Taiji dolphin hunts but that's another argument for another day.)

There are so many ways we can help without actually enlisting, just have to think outside the box.

Total rubbish

Your dignity.

Absolutely infuriating. Hopefully no citizen of this country every uses his business ever again. Then he can"F" off back to his home country where everything is so great.......