Just as radar transformed the air warfare paradigm of World War Ⅱ, the public introduction of stealth technology in the 1980s, and its demonstration in combat in the 1990s, dramatically changed the way that military forces viewed the capabilities of their air defenses, as well as those of their air forces. But, as with all things military, technological advantage is fleeting, and researchers have been working industriously over the past decades to develop countermea-sures and counter-countermeasures to stealth technology. They have not been without success.
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