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From: wb9omc@ee.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: B-2 capability as mobile missile hunter
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Date: 29 May 91 20:40:41 GMT
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From: wb9omc@ee.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick)


fcrary@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (Frank Crary) writes:
>not, as yet, exist. They are still under development. If this is the
>case, why does the USAF want the aircraft in production as soon as
>possible? Why not wait on the sensor technology?

Easy.  The longer you wait to produce it, the more expensive
it gets, inflation and all.  Second, the longer you wait, the more
waffling that congress will do on whether or not to fund it.

>this experience in the dificulty of finding and killing mobile missile
>launchers, has there been any rethinking of the B-2's purpose and its
>ability to accomplish its mission?

It might be a moot point, since congress seems reluctant to
fund the B2.  I hereby put in a vote to bring the first available
B2 to the USAF museum.....

Duane