On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:17:46 +0200, Juergen Nieveler
wrote:

On 24.04.2018 07:17, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
Will taking off in an F16 soon be equal to taking off in an F22 wrt the
fact that they can both be seen!?

I doubt it will happen "soon"... but it's a stern reminder that stealth
technology is just a bet against the ingeniousness of physics grad
students in the next 5 decades...

At least the F-22 is also a superb plane on top of being stealthy, so it
could still fight on even terms with other fighters with the stealth
advantage removed. The F-35 is a different topic...
The University of Waterloo is literally just around the corner from
me, and is well knownfor spawning very successful startups from it's
research and development - so it depends on your definition of "soon".

I'd say 99.9% it will be less than 20 years. Better than 90% less than
10. In 5years? - less than 50%..

This is time to develop and commercialize.