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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD? 
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:46:56 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> This is the same government that thought that hiding a fair-weather 
> aircraft for 25 years was a worthwhile investment of the taxpayers 
> money?

Whoa!  Is someone slamming the F117 here?  Fightin' words!

Whatever shortcomings the F117 may have in the frailty of its skin
coating are more than offset by its ability to go after radar sites
and down SAM corridors after highly defended targets.  It sure beats
the old days when you sent a couple of B52 "cells" (3 bombers) in
after the same target and were't too surprised if you lost a couple of
aircraft in the process.

Now the B2, on the other hand - that may indeed be a bomber who's
primary mission no longer justifies its cost.  Better to do today's
job with smaller, less expensive units.

					Jordan