China uses SpaceX's Starlink satellites to detect stealth aircraft
interestingengineering.com
Chinese researchers have found an innovative way to detect stealth aircraft passively using Starlink satellite constellations.

https://archive.is/2024.09.16-214410/https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-starlink-detect-stealth-fighters#selection-373.0-373.86

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Not just killed US air superiority, but potentially made thousands of soviet-era launchers capable of cheap modernization to counter 5th generation stealth craft.

    It would make it possible for dozens of non-state actors to recreate the Yugoslav Nighthawk incident.