I made a bug report about the F-117’s stealth, you can find it here:
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/uTttwYDNfsuP
Luckily it was accepted as a suggestion, so I’m excited to see what comes of it
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Seems that they changed the F-117’s stealth in the last update before the dev closed:
Slightly worse on the side than before, but much better on the rear.
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We’re so back
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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In other words: Stealth is just useful if the enemy has outdated technology - so with reference to wt it depends on their approach how they want to implement stealth planes; i would not bet that your expectations would be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.
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Have you cobra’d your F-117 yet?
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