The Chinese army is able to detect the F-22 fifth generation fighter Raptor. The country's media claim that the People's Liberation Army was able to monitor the F-22 Raptor of Lockheed Martin on the East China Sea.
We will never know the real value of such statements, which have had a particular echo in Russia, but it should be noted that the concept of low observability does not make a platform invisible. Therefore, it would be correct to say that if not today, even the first fifth generation fighter in the world, the only one for which the term "aerial domain" was coined, could be detected by enemy radars.
Summarizing to the maximum, a low observability profile simply delays the detection and the subsequent tracking. Meanwhile, the profile: even the design stealth par excellence, it will always be affected by external equipment. So, for example, if an F-22 Raptor flew with additional external tanks, it would increase its radar equivalent section, "fouling" its standard track. Then there are some specific "traits", such as the drift of an aircraft, which makes each plane visible, without exception. It is precisely the design of the aircraft, optimized to defeat a specific frequency band, to be decisive in resonance. The profile of the B-2 bomber, lacking some specific stretches of resonance, is effective against low-frequency radars compared to an F-22.
In essence, it is the laws of physics that impose a specific design optimized for different types of frequency bands. Returning to the Chinese. Unknown fighters (Chinese media later claimed it was F-22 Raptor) would have been detected by radars to the East China Sea on 10 February last. Chinese fighters stationed in the relevant area would also have been alerted.
No comment from the Pentagon.
(US Air Force - sgt. Chad Warren)
