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From: DJBQC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (David Bressler)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Iraq and no SR-71
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Date: 18 Aug 90 18:30:08 GMT
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From: DJBQC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (David Bressler)
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>reason that we were surprised in Iraq was because the Blackbird was not
>operational.  Sattelites are good but not flexible enough for the type
>of lightning attack that Iraq used on Kuwait.
>As an additional note, there was a small comment in the NY Times soon
>after the Iraqi attack the the DOD was requesting money to have some of
>the retired Blackbirds put on stand-by for the future.
>
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Back when the SR71 made its record-setting flight west-to-east, I
read an AP-article that stated (from an Air Force spokesman) the
U.S. Air Force had some 34 SR71s......only 9-10 were being retired;
however, he/she wouldn't comment about the remaining 24-25.

I don't know how factual this is/was, but would the U.S. be dumb
enough to put all 'its eggs in one basket' --- like, spy-sats for
instance (they've done stranger things before, who knows)??

Comments?

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