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Aug 1st, 2010 at 2:30pm

Rich H   Offline
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Just wondering, with some of the US' stealth aircraft, like the B-2, F-22, and soon to be F-35; if the aircraft is not talking to air traffic control, does the USA have radars that can actually detect them?
 

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Reply #1 - Aug 1st, 2010 at 5:17pm

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When not flying in combat, they would have their transponders on, allowing ATC to see them just like any other aircraft.  Modern ATC radars don't depend on actual skin contact, but the transmissions from a transponder to locate and id aircraft, although they do still have the skin contact ability.
 
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Reply #2 - Aug 2nd, 2010 at 11:29am

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Yeah most of the time for training they are very talkative with the ATC, so the stay out of the way from other jets that don't see them.
 

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Reply #3 - Aug 22nd, 2010 at 6:04pm

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Active radar reflectors or flying with the gear doors open
 

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Reply #4 - Aug 22nd, 2010 at 8:55pm

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Ivan wrote on Aug 22nd, 2010 at 6:04pm:
Active radar reflectors or flying with the gear doors open



It is much easier than that.  Like I said, all they have to do is turn their transponder on, and they show up just like the rest of us.  Most ATC radars don't rely on "skin paints" anyway, they use transponders to see aircraft.
 
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Reply #5 - Sep 10th, 2010 at 5:05pm

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You hear them pretty regularly on the center radio frequencies out over Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri etc., especially at night.

The B-2's have the coolest callsigns, "Death", "Reaper", etc.  Of course all you hear is the civilian controller's transmission to them but you know it's military.  The controllers will point them out as traffic to look for if they are close enough.

Of course there's always some wise ass that responds by saying "the stealth must be working cause I can't see them...." <-----------LAME

Couple months ago, we had a pair of Raptors cross out flight path, 1,000 ft. above us.  That was pretty cool to see.
 

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