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...real reason the Pentagon unveiled the hitherto secret F-117A Stealth fighter last week was not to show off a nifty new plane or demonstrate military glasnost. It was part of a campaign to persuade Congress and the public to build another, far more expensive, radar-evading Stealth plane: the B-2 bomber. But while the Air Force purchased 59 Stealth fighters for a total cost of $6.26 billion, it wants to buy 132 Stealth bombers for a staggering ^ $72 billion. Some critics say the B-2 program could actually cost more than twice that...
...color photographs and eight-minute video of the delta-winged F-117A did not make the case for new technology. For one thing, the Pentagon admitted that when two of the fighters were used during the Panama invasion, their precision bombs missed their targets by several hundred yards. Moreover, an Air Force report released last week indicated that the life-span of the older B-52 bombers will extend well into the next century, reinforcing growing support in Congress for a drastic cut in the B-2 program -- or even killing it altogether...
...Force's supersecret $50 million F-117A Stealth fighter is designed to avoid detection by sophisticated radar as it homes in on enemy targets. The Panama Defense Forces had no effective radar, antiaircraft guns or interceptor planes. So why were two F-117As dashing over Panama at the start of the American invasion and dropping bombs on an open field near a P.D.F. barracks? To wage a public relations assault on the U.S. Congress...
...accomplished their mission to "stun, disorient and confuse" the enemy and that they had done so with pinpoint accuracy. But some Air Force pilots consider the plane so unstable in flight that they call it the Wobbly Goblin. A congressional defense expert dismissed the public exposure of the F-117A as "pure pap -- a gimmick." This mission, he scoffed, "could have been flown with an Aero Commander, or let Mathias Rust ((the West German teenager who landed his Cessna in Red Square...
While Math. 11 struggles with fluxions and currents, the real fluxes and currents across membranes undergo study in Biophysics 203a. The aristocrat of nine o'clock classes is, however, Anthro. 117a: Oliver's "Oceania: Archeology and Ethnology" is a thinly disguised study of Harvard Square after a long rain...