SAM Crews Beat FIGHTER PILOTS. Less Training. Cheaper Weapons. The Balance SHIFTED.

The Yom Kippur War revealed a terrifying economic and tactical asymmetry. Soviet surface-to-air missile crews required only a fraction of the training that fighter pilots needed, and the missile systems themselves were vastly cheaper than combat aircraft. A $200,000 missile could destroy a $10 million fighter jet operated by a pilot with years of expensive training. The math was brutal and unsustainable. This shifted the entire balance of the battlefield—the Soviets had invested billions in radar-guided missile development, and the returns were devastating. The US realized it needed a completely new approach: aircraft that couldn't be seen by radar in the first place.
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