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From: phil@diablo.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: The XB-70 bomber program
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Date: 23 Sep 89 18:45:14 GMT
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From: phil@diablo.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)

In article <27408@amdcad.AMD.COM> miles@ms.uky.edu (Stephen D. Grant) writes:
|The XB-70 was meant to
|be a supersonic long range bomber which could carry both nuclear and       
|conventional payloads. It was rumored that development of this bomber was made
|in order to phase out the B52's.

As I understood it, the XB-70 was an implementation of the "higher and
faster" school of bomber design. This school "fell" out of favor as
the Soviets improved their missiles to the point where they could
shoot U-2s out of the sky. The H&F school was followed by the "low and
fast" school (B-1?), which has turned into the "be invisible" school. (B-2)

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