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From: gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: F-117A: How old?
Summary: Nobody knows....
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Date: 25 Feb 90 06:12:17 GMT
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From: gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
In article <14239@cbnews.ATT.COM> gardiner%LOCAL@cs.umn.edu (David Gardiner) writes:
>Does anyone know how old a design the F-117A is?  From the
>photographs, it looks relatively old.  Is there any evidence that
>there is a newer stealth fighter (F-19?) and that the Air Force
>released information on the F-117A simply to reduce speculation?

It's possible that the disign is _old_. A rumor to the effect that there
is a second gen stealth fighter flying has been going around for a while now,
but there's no way to tell...[people who deal in black programs are 
usually pretty quiet].

-george