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From: orpheus@reed.UUCP (P. Hawthorne)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: "Stealth" Bombers
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Date: 24 Jan 91 04:48:42 GMT
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From: orpheus@reed.UUCP (P. Hawthorne)
      Aymerik Renard writes:
.     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.

      What are your sources? Are they assuming that the Mirage intercepts
the Nighthawk at a perpendicular flight path with doppler shift radar?
Or maybe just a game of chicken?
      The stealth is not perfect, and depends on quite a few factors such
as the angle to the radar and the type of radar being used. Still, the
plane is as stealthy as was possible when the design was completed in 1983,
if I remember the press release correctly.


      orpheus@reed