Original F-117 Sketch

robert arndt wrote:
"Thomas Schoene" wrote in message
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Easier
to blame the US than their own governments, I guess.

The Arrow wasn't a would be at all- it WAS the greatest interceptor in
the world at the time-far beyond what the US had and equal to the
CIA's U-2 ceiling.

In the limited testing it completed, the CF-105 made just under Mach 2 and
50,000 feet. Could it have done better? Probably. But I don't see what
the U-2 has to do with it.

There were plenty of reasons the plane was cancelled and laying all the
blame on the US is grossly oversimplifying things. I think this site does a
good job laying out the issues:

http://www.vectorsite.net/avarrow.html

US policy was contradictory; some liked Arrow, others didn't. But what
ultimately did it in was not US policy but it's exceptional cost and the
rise of ICBMs, which made intercepting manned bombers rather pointless.

Confirmed? Sez who? I've seen viogorous denials of these alleged
cruise
missile tests, but no evidence that they actually happened.

Israeli reports of those tests have been available for the last 2
years.

But no actual evidence to confirm the reports. The same assertion repeated
many times does not make a fact.

Sightings of the German Firefly II have occured numerous times
over the Overberg Test Range.

I asked specifically about the curiuse missile tests.
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