Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 01:43:17 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, jbryant@tfs.net, dkelly@HiWAAY.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199710140843.BAA03517@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:46:56 PDT." <21477.876815216@time.cdrom.com>
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>From The Desk Of "Jordan K. Hubbard" :
> > 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
^^^^^^
It took a whole lot of effort and money to get to the point in which
is no longer warranted to develop sophisticated weapons to defeat the
enemy . It was a war on the management of economy which have paid dearly for
however we are now free to discuss these issues 8)
Cheers,
Amancio
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