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seanw444yesterday at 7:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. It is completely expected to lose aircraft in an operation of this scale, against an opponent with this level of sophistication. People put way too much stock in all of these modern stealth systems and whatnot. Stealth, for example, is a buzzword. It will give a slight edge, but it's not going to make your aircraft completely invisible and unshootable.


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lostloginyesterday at 11:47 PM

The Iran war is going exactly to plan and this isn’t a bad day for the US administration?

bijowo1676today at 1:30 AM

Stealth really should be qualified as radar-stealth, not optical stealth and not infrared stealth.

Iran is using infrared seekers to shut down planes and US pilots never get a warning of incoming missile due to Iran's passive IR seekers