Why no stealthy AWAC, aerial tanker, maritime patrol plane?

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

There's only been 1 stealthy bomber B-2 developed in the 1980s and entered service in 1997. 20 in the US air force. But if it were good, it would have been basis of AWAC, tanker, maritime patrol plane, no?

 

[zectech]

budget issue among other problems.

 

[XTQ1999]

 

[Brainsucker]

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Why it's feel like photoshop? Is it real?

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Why it's feel like photoshop? Is it real?

Looks like CGI to me.

 

[XTQ1999]

Why it's feel like photoshop? Is it real?

not that version, but MQ-25 contract has been awarded to Boeing

 

[untitled]

But if it were good, it would have been basis of AWAC, tanker, maritime patrol plane, no?

So far the base platform for the above mentioned aircraft has been most of the time an airline/transport like aircraft. The B2 was designed as a specialized bomber.

 

[1ndy]

and i think there's no point mounting a big radar on a stealthily airframe... with a big powerful radar turned on no plane can remain stealth.

 

[BHarwana]

AWAC and surveillance planes send out microwaves to detect stuff they cannot be stealth. Tankers are being worked on.