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...carpet-bomb Pyongyang's advancing troops 12 hours after they crossed the DMZ. While there are only 72 U.S. F-16s in the South now, warplanes from Japan, Alaska and nearby carriers would arrive within hours of an attack, including the cream of the U.S. arsenal: radar-eluding F- 117A Stealth fighters and F-15E strike jets. The U.S. would also rely on sophisticated radar to pinpoint the enemy's artillery tubes and take them out with artillery salvos...
...movie prop for Batman III? No, the vessel steaming across the water on a test mission was Sea Shadow, a 160-ft., 560-ton, welded-steel catamaran that is the latest thing in Navy technology: a Stealth ship. Designed by the same Lockheed "skunk works" that built the F-117A Stealth fighter, the ship has sloping angles and a special coating designed to make it nearly invisible to enemy sonar and radar. Such stealthy boats might someday guard the perimeter of carrier groups, covertly launch surface-to-air missiles or make nighttime troop landings all but undetectable...
Meanwhile, the performance of other high-technology weapons also came under fire. Classified internal Pentagon reports suggested that the vaunted F-117A Stealth fighter scored 60% of the time, not 90%, and that only about half the 288 Tomahawk missiles fired actually hit their target, down from 85%. Even with these revised figures, the high-tech successes made the Desert Storm air campaign the most accurate in history...
...wearing off, and other generals are drawing pointed lessons. Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov told the Supreme Soviet in Moscow that Iraqi air defenses "failed in most cases." Furthermore, "we have weak spots in the antiaircraft system, and we need to examine them." The success of the American F-117A Stealth fighter, of course, throws into question the effectiveness of the whole $100 billion Soviet radar- and missile-defense network...
...allied air campaign's failure to silence Iraq's Scuds after four weeks of relentless searching has strengthened skepticism about the B-2's ability to locate Soviet missiles concealed in millions of acres of forests in the U.S.S.R. Opponents argue, furthermore, that the $70 million F-117A stealth fighter-bomber is not only a lot cheaper than the B-2 but also brilliantly effective; according to the Pentagon, it has had a 95% accuracy record in hitting its targets in Iraq. Another challenge to the B-2 is the Tomahawk cruise missile, which costs only $1 million. Tomahawks...