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From: ar73+@andrew.cmu.edu (Aymerik Renard)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: "Stealth" Bombers
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Date: 21 Jan 91 04:14:30 GMT
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From: Aymerik Renard <ar73+@andrew.cmu.edu>

>From: wade@gouda.ucs.ubc.ca (Doug Wade)
> 
>Our local newspaper reported that B-2 stealth bombers were in the
>Persian Gulf. Am I right in assuming they err'ed and really meant
>the F-117?

    The B-2 is the stealth bomber. The F-117A is the stealth fighter.
It's also interesting to note that the F-117A can be detected by radars
on some of the Mirage planes.


-Aymerik Renard                   ar73@andrew.cmu.edu
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University