Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!amdcad!military From: js43+@andrew.cmu.edu (James William Stepanek) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: F117 in Gulf Message-ID: <1991Apr5.091656.7511@amd.com> Date: 4 Apr 91 04:27:44 GMT Sender: military@amd.com Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Lines: 22 Approved: military@amd.com From: James William Stepanek One interesting piece of information someone told me (it is from a briefing in ROTC I assume not secret) was that the F117's flew 30% of the bombing missions. This is an outrageous amount of flights for only around fifty planes (yes that's all we have). The ground crew must have had one hell of a time at it. [Hmm, half of 65,000 sorties times 30% divided by 40 days and 24 planes is a sortie rate of 20 per plane per day. If you halve the number of sorties again to represent bombing sorties and double the number of planes to 50 that's still 5 missions per plane per day. Doesn't sound credible to me, especially since they supposedly only fly night missions. A mission every 2 hours? They'd have to be based inside Iraq! Perhaps I've overestimated the total number of bombing sorties? --CDR] -- James Stepanek