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From: deichman@cod.nosc.mil (Shane D. Deichman)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: F117 in Gulf
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.033819.5128@amd.com>
Date: 9 Apr 91 04:49:33 GMT
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From: deichman@cod.nosc.mil (Shane D. Deichman)


>>... told me (it is from a... was that the F117's flew 30% of
>>the bombing missions. This is an outrageous amount of flights for only
>>around fifty planes 

Personally, I recall hearing that the F-117, constituting some 1.7% of
the air OoB, took out 30% (40%?) of the strategic TARGETS.  The fallacy
with CDR's logic, if this is indeed the case, is that each target more
than likely had more than one sortie assigned to it (except in the case
of the 117).  An average of three such sorties per target would then decrease
the above "outrageous" amount of missions to a very realizable two per
plane per day.

-shane