Damien435
Active member
If it was tracked by radar, in my opinion, there must have been a malfunction,
was the aircraft shot down before or after dropping its payload? If it was after I would think the problem would be a bay door stuck open, seems most likely to me and that would definitely upset the lack of a radar signature that stealth is supposed to enable. The only other thing I can think of, not being any sort of exert though, is that it was picked up by infrared and taken down that way, an infrared signature is much harder to hide than radar, or such is my understanding.
was the aircraft shot down before or after dropping its payload? If it was after I would think the problem would be a bay door stuck open, seems most likely to me and that would definitely upset the lack of a radar signature that stealth is supposed to enable. The only other thing I can think of, not being any sort of exert though, is that it was picked up by infrared and taken down that way, an infrared signature is much harder to hide than radar, or such is my understanding.