At what distance will Irbis-E and 9S36M radars see stealth-coated F-16C Block 52+?

In the Polish military-analytical segment of the Internet, discussions are heating up regarding the information published by Gazeta Polska Codziennie with reference to a letter from the Polish Ministry of Defence to the Military Aircraft Factory No. 2 about the alleged lack of funds from the Polish Ministry of National Defence for the purchase of radio-absorbing paint/coating (RAP) Have Glass V to coat 48x F-16C/D Block 52+ multirole fighters in order to reduce their effective reflective surface.

In the light of signing multi-billion dollar contracts for the delivery of about 500 HIMARS MLRS and 32x 5th generation F-35A fighters, the information about difficulties in acquiring Have Glass V kits looks at least strange.

We are more interested in the question: how many times can this coating reduce the RCS of the F-16C Block 52+ and how many times will the range of detection of such vehicles by various SAM radars and airborne radars of the Russian Air Force fighters be reduced?

Dark grey radio-absorbing ferromagnetic coating Have Glass V (colour - FS36170) on the basis of polyurethane with microscopic granular ferromagnetic metal fraction reduces the standard RCS of F-16C with armament on suspension units by 76% (from 5 to 1.2 square meters) or 4.17 times in comparison with the unpainted machine. If we consider this reduction factor in relation to the range of detection by radars operating in the S/G/X/J-wave bands, we get a 30% reduction in detection range.

Thus, if the "Irbis-E" radar of the Su-35S fighter detects a standard F-16C uncoated at a distance of 400 km, then with the Have Glass V coating the detection range will be reduced to 276 km and the capture range to 229 km, provided that the AN/ALQ-131 EW container complex on the F-16C is switched off. With the EW complex operating on emissions mode, the capture range may be reduced to 180 - 130 km.
The 9S36M radar of the Buk-M3 system is capable of capturing an uncoated F-16C at an altitude of 10000m at a distance of 98.5km, and with Have Glass V coating at a similar altitude at a distance of 68km.

As you can see, the tactical advantage of the use of "RAP" is evident, but RCSs similar to the 5th generation machines (0.3 - 0.05 square metres) the coatings do not provide.

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"King Arthur," 1903

Charles Ernest Butler
(1864-1918)

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SSH and the Five-Man Band

A trope that is based upon behavioral patterns

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"...the first unmanned aerial combat vehicles that were successfully used by the United State's military: the TDR-1."

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A world government cannot be established in peacetime. But another factor must be added for the nations of the world to surrender their political sovereignty in favor of an international regime: a world religion.

The socialist writer H.G. Wells (1866-1946), a member of the Coefficients, wrote numerous books in which he revealed to his readers his goal of world domination. In 1928, Wells published the first edition of his book The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution. In it, he promoted the usefulness of a world religion as an instrument of political power and social control. To achieve the destruction of national sovereignty, the philosophical, cultural, and Christian traditions of Europe were to be destroyed. Subversive methods were an effective means to this end. The fact that Wells nevertheless spoke of an open conspiracy was because he freely admitted that the cultural heritage of a nation could be undermined by the spread of a new religion. In this way, world history could be steered in the desired direction. https://drmartinerdmann.substack.com/p/world-religion-is-a-useful-tool-of

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