"Emmanuel.Gustin" wrote in message
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Ed Rasimus wrote:


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The B-2
and even more so the F-117 were ver^y specialized designs, and
aircraft that require special maintenance procedures and
climate-controlled hangars are of limited operational usefulness.

They have already proven their operational usefullness. In view of that
fact, the above is an unsupportable assertion.

For stealth to be really useful, it must be made compatible
with dirt strips and pierced metal planking.

It already is "really useful". The loss of one stealth aircraft against how
many hundreds of sorties into environments that were rich with radar
directed threats in Iraq and former Yugoslavia. Again, your statement is
not supported by the facts.

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Emmanuel Gustin