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My gut feel is that improved radars (new frequencies, data processing, bi-static, etc) will reduce the effectiveness of VLO. Then VLO will develop to render the new radar less effective. Then radar will evolve. Rinse and repeat as needed.The increased effectiveness of IR has already spurred development in IR masking (VLO in a different frequency band). This will some day be countered by improved IR systems. And then....There is no end game.Also, in the short term a lot of the "techie" answers to VLO require lots of size and power, and things like widely spaced antenna. Maybe we will see them for ground based radars, but it will take longer to package this stuff into airborne radars and especially into missile guidance radars. It may be that VLO (or whatever VLO evolves into) will have very specific roles in the future - like defeating active homing radar guided missiles in their terminal phase.
My gut feel is that improved radars (new frequencies, data processing, bi-static, etc) will reduce the effectiveness of VLO. Then VLO will develop to render the new radar less effective. Then radar will evolve. Rinse and repeat as needed.
The increased effectiveness of IR has already spurred development in IR masking (VLO in a different frequency band). This will some day be countered by improved IR systems. And then....
There is no end game.
Also, in the short term a lot of the "techie" answers to VLO require lots of size and power, and things like widely spaced antenna. Maybe we will see them for ground based radars, but it will take longer to package this stuff into airborne radars and especially into missile guidance radars. It may be that VLO (or whatever VLO evolves into) will have very specific roles in the future - like defeating active homing radar guided missiles in their terminal phase.
