SCHIN%UNC.BITNET@jade.berkeley.edu (neil schier) (11/14/89)
From: "neil schier" <SCHIN%UNC.BITNET@jade.berkeley.edu>
PONDERING THE B-2
Another important point to keep in consideration when deciding how
one stands on the issue of bringing the B-2, is the engineering that
went to her. More specifically, the various epoxies and metal fabric
sheathes that were developed to build her. Currently there are efforts
to build the space plane. One can only hope, that the fabrics that were
used to build the B-2, would find their way on this new aircraft.
However, one could just as easily argue that the B-2 should not be
built because not only of her much ballyhooed vulnerability to a new
RADAR system, but that it keeps the Air Force "Curt LeMay SAC mentalit
(This is my expression, I can not seem to be able to make up my mind)
By that I mean, that the ALCMs,SLCMs and MX and other ICBM missile
systems can deliver the payload. (There is also little word regarding
the possiblity of her being launched from a flat top in an alpha strik
in a low intensity conflict. If the B-2 were halted perhaps the Air o
Force would be forced into rethinking its Posture (i.e. the Marine
Corps). Still Pondering-Neil Schier (schin@unc)