Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: SCHIN%UNC.BITNET@jade.berkeley.edu (neil schier) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: B-2 bomber Message-ID: <11364@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 13 Nov 89 16:11:17 GMT Sender: news@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 20 Approved: military@att.att.com From: "neil schier" PONDERING THE B-2 Another important point to keep in consideration when deciding how one stands on the issue of bringing the B-2, is the engineering that went to her. More specifically, the various epoxies and metal fabric sheathes that were developed to build her. Currently there are efforts to build the space plane. One can only hope, that the fabrics that were used to build the B-2, would find their way on this new aircraft. However, one could just as easily argue that the B-2 should not be built because not only of her much ballyhooed vulnerability to a new RADAR system, but that it keeps the Air Force "Curt LeMay SAC mentalit (This is my expression, I can not seem to be able to make up my mind) By that I mean, that the ALCMs,SLCMs and MX and other ICBM missile systems can deliver the payload. (There is also little word regarding the possiblity of her being launched from a flat top in an alpha strik in a low intensity conflict. If the B-2 were halted perhaps the Air o Force would be forced into rethinking its Posture (i.e. the Marine Corps). Still Pondering-Neil Schier (schin@unc)