I must say I'm disappointed. As I wrote earlier this week, I looked forward to reading the the Radar Game report issued this morning by the Air Force Association's Mitchell Institute. I anticipated that Rebecca Grant would build on her 1998 report of the same name, and present a well-researched update on the eternal battle between radar and stealth technology.
I assumed wrong. The new report is a copy-and-paste job from Grant's 1998 study with only a single-page Forward section that unfortunately provides no new data. Most disappointingly, even the "future" section is copied word-for-word from the original report published 12 years ago! If you want a late-1990s update on the status of stealth technology and evolution of aircraft survivability, it's not a bad read. But overall it's a missed opportunity to contribute fresh knowledge and research on such an important topic.
I assumed wrong. The new report is a copy-and-paste job from Grant's 1998 study with only a single-page Forward section that unfortunately provides no new data. Most disappointingly, even the "future" section is copied word-for-word from the original report published 12 years ago! If you want a late-1990s update on the status of stealth technology and evolution of aircraft survivability, it's not a bad read. But overall it's a missed opportunity to contribute fresh knowledge and research on such an important topic.
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