There are a multitude of other things that can compromise the RCS of the F-117, albeit not necessarily in the same magnitude as the bomb bay doors. Though I doubt Gaijin will model it, the antennas (TACAN, IFF, RLS/RWR etc) can be retracted. Probably the RLS (sorta RWR) won’t be modelled, because it’s disabled irl, at least on the OCIP. And the other antennas probably will always be in retracted mode, IFF is maybe not as important considering friendly radars won’t be able to pick you up anyway.
And then there are the blow-in doors for the engines, I imagine those may be automatically activated, similar to how some planes intake’s open more or move at lower speed flight. So if that happens, rcs may be slightly higher if you fly too slow or something, but maybe they add an option to disable it, idk.
the f117 was never a fighter, was just name to draw in pilots. some of the pilots are on ecord stating it could fire any type of missile in the air forces’ arsenal.
I want this thing to fire sidewinders so bad, but it seems the most we have to go by are:
-reference to a single ground test firing
-pilots who claim it could carry “any weapon in inventory”
-why are weapon racks on a lowering trapeze if not to carry missiles that need LOS to target
Finding free online copies of F-117 books has been difficult. Do any of ya’ll have books that mention missiles?
It is still a problem, I guess. According to the F-117’s RCS simulations from many research papers in the public domain, it is the side, not the rear, of the F-117 that has the largest RCS.
If you followed closely some reports from an attack of allegedly “stealth” F-35s (with a lower RCS than the “old” F-117) a few days ago, you might find out that some sources claim that the F-35s got locked on 70 miles (some say 70 km) outside the contested airspace, so they launched their stand-off weapons at this range (~600) and went home. It looks like that the planned SEAD mission was not really successful…
In other words: Stealth is just useful if the enemy has outdated technology - so with reference to wt it depends on their approach how they want to implement stealth planes; i would not bet that your expectations would be fulfilled by gaijin.
they hit their targets, which did little to nothing at all and their own EWS has the plane glowing up on radar as a giant fuzzy hole that any radar operator with a brain could see and ask " why is their a mass of flying fuzzy voids object on my radar approaching my country? "
Its like the people haven’t figure out being too " stealthy " gives your position away.
