Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: maniac%garnet.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George W. Herbert) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: How Many B-2's Are Enough ??? Summary: Another Way! ;) Message-ID: <8628@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 27 Jul 89 11:30:44 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 17 Approved: military@att.att.com From: maniac%garnet.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George W. Herbert) Henry Spencer writes... >But our fighters, in particular, do not carry IR detectors. Probably >a better statement would be that the US is ahead a bit in the technology, > > Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology > uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu Aah, Henry, you ignore the ingenuity of american pilots. They will merely energize the seeker heads of their Sidewinder AIM-9[L,M,N] and wait for the growl. At that point they know there's a plane ahead. ;) george william herbert maniac@garnet.berkeley.edu