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So its painted in something that has contrast at 12μm wavelength? at this point paint aint gona cut it and u have to put heating stripes below the aircraft’s skin.
Are you suggesting Musk’s idea of just using cameras plus AI to beat stealth is maybe not the smartest thing ever?
Ill doubt i have the technical expertise to judge any of that.
I think the future of air defense against most air breathing mid sized airborne targets will include:
- Initial target detection via decentral passive radar detectors (using satellites as radar illumination)
- computational layer to choose the next available air defense asset capable of intercepting
- guidance of interceptor to the area of interest via telemetry link
- once the target is in visual range THEN some far IR cam+“AI buzzword of the day” comes in for terminal guidance
I dont even know if it makes sense to call the computation in the missile itself “AI” cuz it dosent take much intelligence for matching 3D models of airplanes to the life picture of the cam and keep that in center. Against the open sky the contrast is so good that fucking 70s analog tech could track a IR blob against it. Top down against ground clutter the process may be more complicated but can be easy tackled by just giving it better optics that only keep the jet and not the ground in focus…
ok rant over i hope that was non credible enough
It doesn’t actually take any expertise to figure out that Musk’s idea is moronic.
You just have to understand what the words “Beyond visual horizon” / “Beyond visual range” actually mean.
The F-35 is designed to eliminate targets that it literally cannot see, in some cases because the curvature of the Earth is in the way.
No camera can solve that. Even if you get the Earth out of the way, no camera small enough to mount on a combat vehicle or weapon exists that can identify something the size of an F-35 at modern engagement distances.
Musk claims they’re “not invisible” but at the distance they can kill you at, functionally, they are.
