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From: pierson@cimnet.dec.com
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Subject: Re: Stealth bomber
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Date: 28 Jun 89 12:28:40 GMT
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From: pierson@cimnet.dec.com

allen%codon1.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU writes (in part...)...

>I also remember a disturbing account in a Jack Anderson column that
>said the B2, while being nearly undetectable by modern radar with very
>short wavelengths, would be quite visible to old 50's and 60's vintage
>Soviet radar with much longer wavelengths, presumably kept in service
>and not scrapped.  If this is the case, Stealth strikes me as a waste of
>money with the added tendency to build overconfidence among strategic
>planners.
	Nature of the business, nobody who knows can say.  FWIW, it has been
	reported one of the '40s/50s Wings (XB49?) was hard to see on _our_
	radar of that vintage, especially from certain angles.  B2, presumably
	improves on that.  This seems a reasonable presumption, given the
	change from metal construction to composite...

thanks
dave pierson
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