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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: why F-4's as Wild Weasels?
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Date: 6 Feb 91 03:35:30 GMT
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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au>
clements@cs.utexas.edu (Paul C. Clements) writes:
>
>Can someone fill in the blank in the following sentences?
> ...
>    "USAF doesn't use the F-117 for the Wild Weasel mission
>    because _________________________."
>

Sounds a bit silly to me to go to all that trouble to get stealth
and then prowl around the sky with ECM blaring.  Bit of a contradiction
in terms really.  Not a very appropriate role for stealth.

Given that the weapons are carried in an internal bay it unlikely
that ECM pods could be fitted to the airframe.  And they certainly
wouldn't work _inside_ the weapons bay.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''