China and Russia might able to shoot down every JSTAR-aircraft in a day

E-8 Joint STAR
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The United States Air Force has faced the thing, that it's combat support aircraft like JSTAR radar aircraft are in danger, if the war begins. In here I must see one thing, what has been forgotten by those writers, who think that JSTAR has problems to accomplish their missions. Pentagon has seen those aircraft, and they also know the capacities and threats of that big four-engine aircraft, and here I must ask one question: is JSTAR actually meant to use in full-scale conflict? Some recon and intelligence platforms are operating in peacetime, but as we know that they would not the ability to survive in real war.


The same way we can say that AC-130 gunships would shoot down in the real war, where highly sophisticated forces would operate against U.S military. JSTAR is actually a radar platform, what mission is to locate underground bunkers and vehicles from the ground. The primary role for JSTAR is actually locating the vehicles by using radar, what it is quite difficult, and that system needs powerful computers to handle the data, what is collected by that radar system. In that case, the buildings, hills and other uneven parts of the ground are disturbing the radar, and hide those targets from the JSTAR-system.  JSTAR would also communicate with drones and other sensors, what are delivered to that combat area, and locate the enemies by those subsystems like Boeing Dominator or its successors.

Here I must say that those radars can also installed in any aircraft in the world, what means that B-2 or B-52 might have similar radars, what can locate enemy command bunkers. But as we might see, those four engine aircraft like JSTAR and it Russian opponent IL-18 "Coot A", are normally operate with fighter escort, and in the real world we could see that B-52 or Tu-95 "Bear" class nuclear bombers could be shot down very easily. And of course E-3 "Sentry's" and other radar surveillance platforms are good targets for anti-radiation missiles, but those platforms are used. As we know that there are always secrets, that are not told to normal people.


And somebody believes, that many of those four engine platforms are equipped with ADS (Active Denial System), what is similar to that used in tanks. That system is actually high-power microwave transmitter, what would be targeted to the incoming missiles, and the similar system is quite effective against the aircraft, what is making gun-attack against those four engine multi-mission platforms. There are rumors that next-generation Su-27 fighters have laser weapons because it would expand their strike capacity. Those microwave transmitters are targeting incoming missiles by using their infrared signature for aiming the transmitter to the target.


In some theories, those microwave transmitters can be very dangerous also for aircraft, what are using laser-weapons. The sensor detects the heat, what comes from combat aircraft laser weapons, and then targets microwave or laser ray to that plane. There is a chance to survive, if the user of active denial system has got more powerful microwaves or lasers in use, than attacking aircraft. But that is only the speculation about that kind of things.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_E-8_Joint_STARS

Boeing Dominator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d1ORgVjZto

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/05/18/air-force-secretary-china-russia-could-shoot-down-new-jstars-on-day-one-of-a-war/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ebb%2021.05.18&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief


Picture I

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