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Date: 2008-01-20 08:35 pm (UTC)Do tell. Who is this person, and what are their qualifications for making this statement? I'm _fascinated_.
I don't think anyone has argued that they will be harder to detect. Insisting by fiat that they are undetectable, is, the however, the position a lot of anti-stealth people seem to take. Do you agree that this is an indefensible position?
Don't waffle and reiterate that they will be harder to detect; that's what makes the people who hold the anti-stealth position seem contemptible, given their repeated assertions that pro-stealth people 'just don't know basic physics'.
I would also note, that 'the act of taking out sensors' is unstealthy seems to fly in the face of a long tradition of doing just that to remain stealthy. It even gets movie treatment, e.g. tossing a bug in a circuit breaker to power down a critical security camera. Typically, fat guard #1 gets off his duff and investigates, then disgustedly makes some humorous observation(humorous to the fourth wall, that is) to guard #2 over the walkie-talkie, and flips the breaker back on, restoring power to the critical cam. Meanwhile, the ops team has run through the critical zone . . . In fact, that's why the anti-stealth people, poor losers, insisted why their detectors were by fiat unfindable.
Do you really not see this? Or is it that you've committed to a position that you can't comfortably back away from . . . presumably after telling pro-stealth types that "they don't know basic physics"?
What was the line from Brazil? 'Whose going to stop you from coming in? Well, do you have form dd-stroke-274?' 'Not . . . as such.'