Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: B2 vs. F117A Message-ID: <1991Feb19.031553.16283@cbnews.att.com> Date: 19 Feb 91 03:15:53 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 25 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Mary Shafer Alan Carroll asked why buy all those expensive B-2s when you could buy more F-117s. Why did we buy so many B-52s when we could have bought F-111s? What can B-52s do that F-111s can't? (Hint: Diego Garcia) How big a payload does a B-52 carry, compared to an F-111? The F-117 is really a replacement for the F-111 and the B-2 is a replacement for the B-52, so think of it in this way. Someone claimed that the B-2 will launch only nuclear weapons. That's the B-1, not the B-2. The B-2 will carry conventional weapons. Actually, the B-1 is being certified to carry conventional weapons not that they've ungrounded them. -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot