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From: edat!brian@uunet.UU.NET (brian douglass)
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Subject: Re: F117 in Gulf
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Date: 12 Apr 91 20:37:11 GMT
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From: edat!brian@uunet.UU.NET (brian douglass)


>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.  

I don't know where everyone else is getting their numbers, but what
I read was "Though we accounted for less than 2% of the total aircraft 
inventory, we took out 47% of all strategic targets"  Quoted from
the Las Vegas Review Journal from an interview with a returning
F-117 Nighthawk Fighter Pilot.

There was nothing about number of sorties or CEP of those sorties.
But judging from the videos of bombs going down air shafts, etc.,
when the system was working, it was really working.

-- 
Brian Douglass			brian@edat.uucp