The USAF is not as technologically advanced as they would like you to believe. There are many vulnerabilities and gaps left to exploit. The US had many aircraft shot down in the last conflict, and they’re regrouping and reevaluating strategy, including assessments of electronic warfare intelligence, plugging gaps before the next conflict starts. It’s not just about restocking munitions.
This information should be public knowledge. ICE agents are not legally “undercover” gestapo, no matter how much they want to be.
I think the best form of revolution right now is a personal one. Have revolutionary optimism that things can can better if you’re willing to fight for it. Everything after that naturally follows.
There are too many critical gaps in electronic warfare capability to go all in right now. They would lose too many aircraft against the modern defense systems.
In terms of RCS, this missile has several geometric features that make it poor. It has long, sharp and uncorrugated surfaces that will reflect. RAM material is actually a terrible absorber by itself. It needs a metallic backing to function, which increases weight, and acts by killing the surface currents. Ferrite can be sprayed on, but it can be brittle and crack easily under shock and vibration. What you want is a light, flexible absorber material, with maybe 6 dB or so reflectivity, that takes advantage of corrugated surfaces that redirect bounces away or cause it to reflect multiple times off the airframe (each bounce gets attenuated), so you need less absorber. The absorber has to be thin and flexible so it can make the sharp bends the corrugation requires. Weight is the enemy of air platforms, and the lighter weight your platform is the more capability (range/maneuverability) it has. Sharp and light, it’s just right; long and flat, send it back! Just my $0.02. Source: not at all knowledgeable on this stuff
Edit: although one would expect RCS to be a problem from the port and starboard sides (it’s worst in these regions), the area of interest is actually forward. The missile will be aimed at its target, and by the time you see it from the side it’s too late to launch an interceptor. The nose cone of this missile looks like it’s untreated for RCS. If you took the radome off, I would expect corrugated surfaces, looking like concentric knife-edge sharp circles covered in flexible RAM absorber. I would expect a spiky ring around the mold line where the radome would attach. This looks like it’s continuously painted with navy grey paint, which is conductive, not a RAM material. It also looks like one big metallic piece, without a radome, not optimized for RCS at all (where does the radome start and the paint stop, you can’t even tell!). The wings themselves (the four in the back and the two large ones on the sides) are also extended too far forward and will act as giant reflectors; you want these wings to be angled back so the radar reflection from the forward direction is off to the side, not mostly forward. This is not a low observable cruise missile, not even close!