incorporated in the backbone of the air frce, serious technical
problems need to be solved, and compromises must be made.

It is true that the loss rate of the F-117 has been low: The
low rate of other USAF aircraft has also been low, to the
point of making a comparison statistically insignificant.

--
Emmanuel Gustin

Sort of a narrow view of air operations, I would say. Having particiapted in a
number of 100 plane raids in SEA against a single point target that a single
B-2 cold take out now I'd say the tradeoffs with Stealth is no brainer. The
high maintenance requirements for stealth and the controlled hangar
environments are mainly a matter of materiels used in maintaining stealth
coatings and those materials have been much inproved in the past decade.