Granted, the Stealth American technology might show to little bang for the buck, but hey!. they got the planes �right?

Working or not, costing billions or not, the reality is that nobody else have the technology, the capacity or the money to afford stealth planes like american do.

As for achieving the estrategic role. you just saw it: 36 hours non-stop strait flights for the B-2 to enter Bosnia or Baghdad undetected!

Don't get me wrong, I do like the Russian approach for fighter design technology, but you just need to consider that both parties relies on total different aeronautical philosopies.

The Russians today gambles on the high maneuvrablility platform for close combat dog-fight aproach, whereas the Americans use the furtive stealth technology with the beyond visual range capability (BVR) for effective aerial supremacy.

�Wich one do you think has the clearest philosophical aproach?

Russians spect to encounter the American treat at close quarters, but this will never happen, simply because the American planes will blow them from very long distances without been detected.

If you think this is no true, show me then �What's the actual Russian policy that will eventually win over the American approach?

The best the Russians can trow at them, is the fifth generation Sukhoi S-37 transonic demonstrator, �But what possible treat it will represent if only wears fourth generation cockpit and avionics?

Stealth is a myth and that is all to it. All B-2 and F-117's during Yugoslavia conflict were tracked as far as Moscow region in Russia as normal aircraft.

As for technology - Pentagon knows that Russia still have more up its sleeves than we know. What's an airforce without GPS, AWACS and coordination support? Nothing!
Russia demonstrated its capability to turn the satellites GPS off, knocking-out AWACS and many other crucial US supporting structures.
They were toying with Kitty Hawk Aircraft Carrier in a year 2000:
http://www.politrix.org/foia/unsorted/kitty-hawk-mail.htm

As for close air-to-air combat we better be ready, as Raptor has nothing against Sukhoi and MiG fighters. I mean nothing! What if missiles against MiGs will not work, then what. Up close and personal American fighters will be done very fast (provided adversary pilots know their business).

Today's military might is a gamble. There are issues like public opinion that may make any power to go bust. War is war and I hope we won't see one.

The real fact is that the americans have the Stealth planes, they use them, they prove them in combat and they are combat ready �Did the Russians have something to counter this kind of readiness?

With a crumbling economy that cannot allow to display the so called Russian acrobatic Flanker display act, you`re gonna have grounded Flanker prototypes all over the place that cannot achieve duty fly, unless some tourist goes to Zhukowsky and paid the price for a 20 minute raid and help the Russians stay in the game!

�Come on. failing misiles? to many supositions, the real situation is that Americans have the proven technology while the Russians begs for some foreign contracts to stay in business.

I`m not an American, don`t have any tax issue against the American goverment, if the Americans spent their money in $1.000 dollar pens or $20.000 toillet paper on the Space shutlle �What`s this have to do with Stealth working or not?

They still got two horrendous accidents with this redundant technology while the Russians almost got a monumental fireworks show with the the conservative, practical and crude aproach on the MIR station!

The opposite aproach on both sides don`t garanty success, nobody knows if misiles, computers, tires, engines, or a $ 0.5 cent screw will work ?

In case the Americans hadn`t lost the touch, and considering that 40 years has past since 1960, when JFK promise and delivered the man to the moon in less than 9 years.

The whole concept was developed and cost about $1 per regular radar to read "Stealth" like an open book.

KGB planted stealth a long time ago as a long shot. It was bought big time and re-sold to the US taxpayer. Stealth setback is so huge moneywise - it blinded everybody. What if planes like F-117 or B-2 will start falling from the sky. Use your imagination what would happen after that!

What they gonna say? We didn't know that anti-stealth technology was invented before we have finished our first stealth aircraft? Or it would be something like: "Our intelligence overlooked that Tesla radars have had an anti-stealth technology incorporated since the mid 80's". What do you think the answer would be?

�Don`t you think that the military also knows the Russians got this hipotetical countering Stealth device, since let`s say: 1998?

�Whats is this: Dumb & Dummer?

The Americans can be really stupid some times, I admit that, but in the case of Stealth technology (that you apparently seem to hate and deny), the proven facts of its existence, the openess of the American government towards the media being informed of it, the display of pirotecnics in Panama (1989), Irak (1991), Bosnia (1998), Serbia (1999), Afghanistan (2001), Irak (2003)
and the letality of its implementation.

Clearly tells me is a strong argument huge enough to clear any doubt, but you keep saying: DON'T EXIST, DON'T ASK, IT'S A FAKE!