Milo,
Genuine question if I may. I am aware that the early LO technologies could be detected by disturbance etc, I had it explained to me once that they would be detected by the WW2 style 'chain home' system for example.
My question is: How do you construct a kill chain armed with this knowledge?
Sounding slightly sarcastic (which I promise you I'm not being) I am not aware of a 'disturbance in mobile telephone system-homing missile'.
Which I think leads me to the conclusion that so long as LO defeats one link in the kill chain, be it AI radar or target illuminator, or target tracking radar, IR seeker head (you get the point) then it has beaten the threat, hasn't it?
If I were flying one is it not immaterial if RAF Uxbridge could see me, if the SU-30 driver and the SA-15 gunner couldn't?
As always, prepared for incoming.