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Preventing a radar lock is not the same thing as being low observable, aka 'stealth'. Low radar reflectivity is about reducing or denying the seeking receiver (not transmitter) part of the seeking of the radar any or all echoes that may come off the body. Currently the methods are part absorber and mostly deflection working together towards that denial. Jamming is about wide area transmission of signals designed to overwhelm a specific frequency spectrum to mask any radar reflections from any aircraft. The ECM aircraft will be make its presence known because of this field.Not per say but, I would guess that the EA-18G used some Jamin tech to avoid being shoot down by the F-22..
do you have the link explaining the whole thing..
Regarding this story, we do not know the details of the engagement. The F-22 could have been providing the EF-18 an exercise opportunity on how to detect a low observable body like the F-22. We do not know. These F-22s do not fly without radar enhancers...
Like that little dingleberry on the underside of the aircraft. The device is a passive enhancer that will amplify any EM signals and reflect back in the direction of arrival. Did the EF-18 had an air-air engagement against such an F-22? We do not know. But what we do know is this...
Raptor Scores in Alaskan Exercise | AVIATION WEEK
The gun kill is a capability Air Force planners hope their F-22s won't use. The fighter is designed to destroy a foe well beyond his visual and radar range. Within visual-range combat and, in particular, gun kills are anachronisms. In amassing 144 kills to no losses during the first week of the joint-service Northern Edge exercise in Alaska last summer, only three air-to-air "kills" were in the visual arena--two involving AIM-9 Sidewinders and one the F-22's cannon.