dave@questar.questar.mn.org (David Becker) (01/20/89)
In the quality vs quantity argument is stealth worth it? The reports I've heard say the AF want 130 odd B-2's at $500M a piece. That comes in around $65,000,000,000. Can someone say if this 'quality' is better $65B worth of conventional air strength. Tom Clancy's _Red Storm Rising_ has a scenario where the stealth fighters fly mostly undetected behind enemy lines to elimanate the Warsaw pact air strength, and basically save the west from communists. Does the B-2 bomber provide more capability than say buying $65B of B-52's and F-15's? The B-52's could fly out of some base in Texas and carpet bomb Warsaw formations under protection of all those fighters. The B-2's could fly a similar mission without detection. Would some quality B-2's outperform the conventional air power the same $$$ could buy? -- David Becker and another bug bites, and another bug bites another bug bites the dust db@kolonel.MN.ORG