Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: jjb%sequent.uucp@RELAY.CS.NET (Jeff Berkowitz) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: B-2's, F-117's, and other necessary stuff Message-ID: <1991Mar22.043851.23324@cbnews.att.com> Date: 22 Mar 91 04:38:51 GMT References: <1991Mar18.132743.14476@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (william.b.thacker) Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 19 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Jeff Berkowitz In article <1991Mar18.132743.14476@cbnews.att.com>, pms2@jaguar.uofs.edu (STOCKSCHLAEDER PETER M) writes: > Concerning the F-117....Well, why the hell didn't they call it the >FB-117? It seems that this is all they do - bomb militarily significant >targets Against Iraq, true. In general, I believe not true. It is not a plane that would be used for random daytime dogfighting, but on the other hand I think the Clancy scenario in "Red Storm Rising" is pretty reasonable. (The first act of WWIII in that book was for a carefully timed F-117A mission to shoot down all the Soviet AWACS planes [Mainstay]). -- Jeff Berkowitz N6QOM uunet!sequent!jjb | If you can't trust the comics, Sequent Computer Systems jjb@sequent.com | what can you trust? -Bullwinkle