Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!amdcad!military From: wb9omc@ee.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Marconi Radar detects F117? Message-ID: <1991Apr5.092336.8719@amd.com> Date: 3 Apr 91 18:05:28 GMT References: <1991Mar29.031947.16962@amd.com> Sender: military@amd.com Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Lines: 27 Approved: military@amd.com From: wb9omc@ee.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick) Andrew.Stevens@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens) writes: >A recent Guardian newspaper article (a pretty respectable paper) here in >Britain contained a short article on the succesful radar detection of >F117's by British Warships. It seems the manufacturers of the rader >system were making very smirky noises about how well their latest model >had leap-frogged F117-vintage stealth technology. So let them smirk. The F117 is pretty much first generation stealth; you have to start somewhere. >Anyone out there in net-land know more about this story. If true, >it would suggest mildly alarming things about the longer-term >viability of the F117. Perhaps other than the cost of the airplane, the reason only 59 were produced was to prevent the obsolescence of the entire USAF TAC. No technology is *perfect*..... I suppose for the purpose of sneaking a smiley in here, I could say that it would only be mildly alarming if we were at war with the British. :-) <<<<