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That has got to be a mistake at 240 knots ? Thats a crawl for a jet fighter!
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Quoting: GT500 .
Well, the reality is that you don't want a Stealth fighter that
can make a sonic boom, because then it's no longer stealthy.However, 240 kias is so incredibly slow and gives it such a diminished
range that it can almost be shot down with a backpack-based drone
from an amphibious team from a beachhead on the Persian Gulf.
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Wrong. The F-22 is one of the noisiest aircraft in the Air
Force and can travel faster than the speed of sound without
an afterburner. Stealth in aircraft has little to do with
noise and much more to do with evading radar and reducing
infrared signature.
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No, I'm talking the F-117, which has a top speed of 617 mph,
below the speed of sound.
While the F-313 speed of 240 kias would make it tough to
shoot down in a dog fight (low turn radius compared to an F-22),
it makes it vulnerable to even drones along the gulf coastline
once
visually identified (BTW, that's easily done at 240 knots!).
An F-18 Block II could probably easily scan a fan-blade count
of this F-313 prototype and nail it on its first flight.
That said -- Noise IS hazardous from ground-based sources HUMINT
assets which then coordinate with look-down radar platforms
for "tighter" radar scans from airborne surveillance.
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