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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: F-22 vs F-23 3rd Part
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Date: 23 May 91 20:28:37 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)


>From: apctrc!zrra07@uunet.UU.NET (Randall R. Appleton)
>But please don't tell me about B-2 cruises mearliy chasing thru the
>Russian countryside looking for targets of oportunity...

Officially it's supposed to cruise merrily around looking for mobile
missiles.  Some doubts have been raised about this recently :-), since
the USAF's finest didn't do too well at that in Iraq, despite much more
favorable conditions.  It turns out that this is just a rediscovery of
WW2 experience; I was re-reading "The Rocket Team" the other day and
found its descriptions of massive -- and quite unsuccessful -- efforts
made to find and attack mobile V-2 launchers quite relevant.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry