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From: leem@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Lee Mellinger)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Soviet copies of US hardware
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Date: 20 Jan 89 05:03:32 GMT
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In article <3199@cbnews.ATT.COM> fiddler@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
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:In article <3114@cbnews.ATT.COM>, hp-sdd!mitchm@ucsd.edu (Mitch Mitchel) writes:
:> 
:> Aren't the B-47 Canberra bomber and the AV-8 Harrier fighter American copies
:> of British aircraft?  I know that the B-47 was used in combat in Vietnam but
:> I can't comment on its effectiveness or reliability.  Is it still in used
:> today?
:
:Nope.  The Boeing B-47 was from start to finish an American design.
:
:The B-57 saw combat in Viet Nam, while the B-47 was out of service
:by that time, being completely replaced by various B-52 variants.

The B-47 was still in service at least until 1966, the US involvment
with Vietnam started in a major way in 1964.  The B-47 was a medium
bomber, the B-52 is a heavy bomber and did not replace the B-47.  The
B-58 was the medium bomber replacement.

Lee  ex-B-52 bluesuiter.

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