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ckfinite -> RE: Interview with Navy Officer (4/5/2015 5:17:50 PM)
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I do question the veracity of those slides rather a lot - there are some major issues with them, at least to my understanding of the EW problem.
There's a fundamental difference between EW/ECM and stealth that those gloss over, namely that stealth works by reducing signal from the real platform, whereas ECM works by either increasing noise (noise jamming) or by making contacts that don't actually exist (deception jamming).
This creates a problem with ECM that stealth doesn't have - it can be countered by software alone. Stealth is a physics thing - a stealth aircraft can always get closer to an emitter than a non-stealth one, no matter the generation of radar involved or what software it has. ECM however is a bag of clever tricks, each of which can be countered by another clever trick on the other side. As such, ECM systems are playing a game of cat and mouse with radars that stealth systems don't have to do.
The real solution is a synergistic combination of the two technologies. EA-18Gs or F-35s with NGJs (as the F-35 is planned to receive the pod) can cover F-35 strike packages, reducing signal while increasing noise.
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