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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: OP. DESERT SHIELD
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.215841.18509@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 21 Nov 90 21:58:41 GMT
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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
In article <1990Nov19.001938.9224@cbnews.att.com>, mc9e@dale.acc.Virginia.EDU (Matt Crispin) writes:
>From: mc9e@dale.acc.Virginia.EDU (Matt Crispin)
>
>You don't need B-52's over there. There are FB-111's in Turkey, along with \
>some B-2's. There's no real need for the real big boys.

Huh? We have B-52s in Diego Garcia. I've heard some pre-positioning is
currently taking place to station more B-52s in Egypt when war comes, for
carpet bombing the Iraqi fortifications in Kuwait. 

FB-111s are available for precision strike, but do not carry the big bomb load
which the B-52 can. 

The B-2 (all two of them) is still in testing phase. Maybe you mean the B-1?
The B-1 is currently dedicated (so far as we know) to strategic missions (ie:
Nuclear War).