Originally Posted by
radmanly
Is stealth a boondoggle? Have the taxpayers spent billions for a technology that makes airplanes more expensive, difficult to repair, reduces readiness and fundamentally doesn't work?
Stealth does not mean invisible, it just means a smaller RCS vs traditional radars. Unfortunately, every military technology eventually has a counter-technology and/or tactic. Military advances including stealth are like patents, you pay a lot of money in R&D but should only expect to have the resulting advantage for a certain amount of time (especially when our own gov't/military/manufacturers brag on every advance we make).