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From: phil@brahms.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Air Superiority B-52?
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Date: 22 May 91 19:53:44 GMT
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From: phil@brahms.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)


camelsho@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Seymour) writes:
>one that really caught my attention was something of an oddball--
>the airsuperiorty B-52.

Sounds like someone read a piece of FICTION titled "Flight of the Old
Dog" by Dale ???

>Supposedly, some extra airframes were converted to radar/missile
>platforms.  All bomb capacity was converted to either missile
>launchers or extra radar.

It sounds amusing at first, a flying AEGIS platform, but it seems to me
the "overwhelm them with 300 missiles at once" method described in "Red
Storm Rising" wouldn't have any problem with such a platform. After
all, how many missiles can an AEGIS track and kill at any one time?
Surely no more than a dozen or so. Considering how much AEGIS and/or
AWACS cost, I have to wonder how effective it would be and whether
it would be better than a couple of squadrons of F-14s with Phoenix
(which we already have).

These considerations seem to make the B-2 almost worth its cost...

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