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From: dvlssd@cs.umu.se (Stefan Skoglund)
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Subject: Re: Air Superiority B-52? (AWACS)
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Date: 2 Jun 91 18:32:59 GMT
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From: dvlssd@cs.umu.se (Stefan Skoglund)


igor!rutabaga!wab@uunet.UU.NET (Bill Baker) writes:
>You'd need an airframe capable
>of carrying the system and dozens of BVR air-to-air missiles, but a '47
>could probably do it.  A squadron of such planes might make a hell of a
>backbone for theatre air superiority.

They would also give NORAD some good air-defense cap over the whole
North-America.  But the AF didn't buy the F-14 for that role.  They
bought F-15's.