Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ns-mx!iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov! ames!pacbell.com!att!cbnewsu!cbnewsl!cbnewse!cbnewsi!cbnewsk!cbnewsm!cbnewsd!cbnewsj!cbnewsh!cbnewsc!cbnews!military From: edat!brian@uunet.UU.NET (brian douglass personal account) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Message-ID: <1990Sep12.014806.28818@cbnews.att.com> Date: 12 Sep 90 01:48:06 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 46 Approved: military@att.att.com From: edat!brian@uunet.UU.NET (brian douglass personal account) To: military@cbnews.att.com Subject: Re: F-117A Fighter or Attack? Newsgroups: sci.military In-Reply-To: <1990Sep10.054013.5557@cbnews.att.com> Organization: Electronic Data Technologies, Inc. Cc: In article <1990Sep10.054013.5557@cbnews.att.com> Bob McCormick writes: >1) Does anybody know why the F-117 Stealth fighter is called a "fighter"? >>From what I understand, it is more like an attack plane, designed to hit >defended targets. As was mentioned in this group recently, the Air Force >might have had less trouble with the F-11 program if it had been A-111. The F-117A is not designed as a ground support aircraft, that is supporting the Army (I always thought it should mean Army instead of Attack). Bombers belong to SAC, the F-117 belongs to TAC. It is truly a Tacitical Bomber, versus Strategic or Attack. Therefore F is the only designation available. >2) Has the Air Force released the list of weapons carried by the F-117A? >It has been noticably missing from the descriptions that I have read. I know that it carrys 2 2000lb bombs. MK-84s at least. I do not know if it has Air- to-Air capability (Radar, Missle pylons) as most AA capability is not stealthy. You're pretty obvious when your radar is on. >3) Regarding the F-111, _The Great Book of Combat Aircraft_ by >Bill Gunston, Mike Spick, and others has an interesting cut-away view of >and F-111 with Sidewinders AAM and a Bullpup ASM in its weapons bay. >Caption said it was an early drawing by General Dynamics, done before >the plane flew. F-111s were retrofited with a wing pylon and can carry one AIM-9, a J I beleive. >4) For a name for the Stealth Fighter, how about Black Arrow? It is shaped >like an arrowhead. It is called the NightHawk. Fairly apprapoe I think. --- Brian Douglass uunet!edat!brian