weissel

Thanks to some policing activity, the thread is locked. Still I think the subject is interesting enough, so wanna talk to you if you don't mind.

First of all, apologies assuming you're being nerd several times: was once served in Airforce, had never thought you can go with "No stealth". Now it's my turn to accept that I have to get some prejudice away.

You keep saying operational and tactical stealth apart, and saying that operational stealth can be done with no tactical stealth, which makes sense. But no tactical stealth at all? that doesn't make sense. Told you about Gerald Ford CVN (which is not WWII, rather a near future) struggling to get tactical stealth. In the scheme of the modern naval warfare, getting operational stealth is superior in every single aspect and getting tactical stealth is nearly impossible. But they do. Why? They don't want to be a dead body.

In space, operational stealth can be achieved without tactical stealth, because of all your reasons well explained. I'm pretty sure there's no border there. How can you sneak into your space pearl harbor when your radiator glowing at every single direction? Wouldn't it work because of the micro sensor swarm, which revolve sun in 90 inclination at earth-mars orbit? I'd rather not fight against them if they can do that.

And don't expect you can always fight with well-prepared enemy which make your obsolete tactic useless. War is not a game. It involves with tons of political, economical, and so on conditions. Who knew you have to pull the depreciated battle rifle, which was considered obsolete in the current "war meta", to fight against drug soaked unprotected human swarm? Who new the sparkling bleeding edge stealth strategic bomber would be of no use these days? If you have to march against a handful of rebel occupying an asteroid armed with industrial kinetic driver, still will you say "Directional radiation wouldn't be useful because of their sensor swarm(which doesn't exist)"?

Stealth fighter with AWACS is a thing: just try search what can F22 and F35 can do with their radar. Once again, you can decide when to be stealthy or not. The thing you're AWACS doesn't mean you have to be all the time. Still, it make thing super expensive.

About distributed asset as a detachment...dude, have you ever been in the detachment? Distributed radar site can do absolutely nothing if the Air Defense Control Command was wiped out. If you want to make the Command distributed, heh, you can make the Sun distributed(which wouldn't be functional because of its distributed mass).

Do not stick with how the space is blah blah and rather think about why do they don't in real life.