Or, you incorrectly assume that only engineers know or understand such things. One could assert the signature of a Russian fighter as, say, 10dbsm clean and 15dbsm with a set of stores. Now take a generic stealth fighter with -20dbsm clean, for example. Add the same stores and let's say it becomes -10dbsm or -5dbsm. That's still a multiple order of magnitude lower than the 15dbsm Sukhoi.
As I said earlier, Mach 2 is entirely correct. Without proof - which is highly guarded - it's a road to nowhere when the cognoscenti demand evidence that isn't 'out there'. LO's figures from his earlier argument are just as indefensible as those in the example above.
Last edited by MSOCS; 27th Mar 2016 at 23:49.