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From: yla@IDA.LiU.SE (Yngve Larsson)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: How Many B-2's Are Enough ???
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Date: 22 Jul 89 04:44:36 GMT
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From: yla@IDA.LiU.SE (Yngve Larsson)

In article <8479@cbnews.ATT.COM> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>.  The Brits got this one right on the air-defense variant
>of the Tornado.  Ditto with the USN on the F-14.  But the USAF hasn't
>built an interceptor for 25 years, and has forgotten how.
>
>                                    Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
>                                uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

I thought that the ANG Phantoms were supposed to fill this role. Were else
would the USAF need to deploy air-defence interceptors instead of sleek,
sexy air-superiority machines? :-)

				Yngve Larsson


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