Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Election Day: Did the Carter Administration cynically leak military secrets to help the President win re-election ? Or was it only releasing heartening defense news that was rapidly becoming public anyway? And more important, was the national security really damaged by disclosure that the U.S. is developing a Stealth bomber that may be able to elude Soviet radar? Although still incomplete, the reconstruction of how the news came out makes a fascinating-and disturbing-tale...
...plane and the cruise missile. Then someone began leaking news on Stealth. Within five days, Aviation Week, ABC-TV and the Washington Post reported on the project. On Aug. 14, Post Reporter George C. Wilson wrote that President Carter was about to commit himself to the development of a bomber "virtually invisible to enemy radar" and that it might help him counter Republican charges that he had neglected U.S. defenses. Actually, Carter has not gone that far, but the Administration is seriously considering recommending the development of a bomber using the Stealth technology...
...confirmed that the U.S. had indeed test-flown a plane that was hard for radar to detect, said that it "cannot be successfully intercepted with existing air defense systems" and boasted that the development "alters the military balance" in favor of the U.S.-even though a fully operational Stealth bomber could not fly until 1987 at the earliest...
...that, Pentagon officials concede, still does not make the Stealth totally invisible. Soviet radar and other detection devices eventually would pick up a Stealth-type bomber, but the hope is they could not fix its location, speed and altitude until too late. By then, the plane could have launched cruise missiles or even dropped bombs...
...would revive Pennsylvania's coal and steel industries. Both have endorsed a mixture of tax cuts and "supply side" incentives to improve the national economy. Both back the MX mobile missile system; Specter charges that Flaherty is "soft on national defense" because he opposes the defunct B-l bomber and neutron bomber programs, but Flaherty counters that he supports the cruise missile and Trident submarine programs...