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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: B1 in gulf
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.072226.8230@amd.com>
Date: 31 May 91 20:19:38 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)


>From: fcrary@lightning.Berkeley.EDU (Frank Crary)
>>...they can't afford to reduce their ready
>>bomber force, and they certainly can't afford for the wreckage of a destroyed
>>bomber get into enemy hands.
>
>Would this same logic not alos apply to the B-52 during the Viet Nam War?...

Only if applied much more cautiously.  Remember that there were half a dozen
different versions of the B-52, several of which were built in numbers
comparable to the entire B-1 production run.  Only the older ones, carrying
poorer equipment and already considered obsolete for nuclear duty, saw
combat in Vietnam.

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