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From: bash@ihlpb.att.com (T Basham)
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Subject: Re: How Many B-2's Are Enough ???
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Date: 22 Jul 89 04:44:38 GMT
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From: bash@ihlpb.att.com (T Basham)

>  Helicopter designers have for some time been adding
>widgets to deflect exhaust gases upward to minimize IR signature downward;
>the latest Soviet design deflects the gases DOWNWARD instead, to hide from
>IR-equipped fighters above.
>
>                                    Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology

So, let's equip the ground forces with IR sensors B-].

Seriously, though,  What is the status of the FLIR testing.  Last I read
in AW&ST said it was being tested on an F-16, but that was a while back.
Has there been any more news?  It must be working or our great news media
would be all over it B-[.

Tom.
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