"killfile" wrote in message
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In all honesty, the truth these days is that there is little requirement
for
an Aircraft with the B-2's highly L-O capablities. Modern Bi-Static radar
systems, such as the one associated with the Russian SA-10/SA-12 system,
are
capable of detecting, and more importantly, tracking the B-2 at
intermediate
ranges (Especially in the rain!).

Some of the software that modeled the B-2 has a decidedly French flavor.

The best proof of this is that the current US Administration has tried six
ways from Sunday to find an excuse to order more B-2's, even to the point
of
retiring a portion of the B-1 fleet to create a requirement, but in the
end
even they've had to admit that they're far too expensive for what they do.
(And they've cut the numbers of retiring B-1's!)

The B-1 suprised us all and started working, it doesn't need replacing.