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From: daveg@prowler.clearpoint.com
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Subject: Re: Air Superiority B-52?
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Date: 22 May 91 15:41:27 GMT
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From: daveg@prowler.clearpoint.com


camelsho@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Seymour) said:
> Supposedly, some [B-52] extra airframes were converted to
> radar/missile platforms.  All bomb capacity was converted to
> either missile launchers or extra radar.  And the big bird was
> supposed to be able to fire "normally groundbased" missiles
> backwards from about half of its bays.

This is described completely in the novel "Flight of the Old Dog", by
Dale Brown, where is was called the B-52 Megafortress.  It was
stealthy, too. Excellent book, but as far as I've heard, that's all it
is.  :-)

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