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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Can't stand the rain? You're not alone. Neither can the B-2 Stealth Bomber. The Air force admitted today that the fleet of famously radar-invisible planes ? which cost the taxpayer $1.5 billion a pop ? doesn't like going out when it's wet, because it damages the special radar-absorbing paint. A report from the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said the coating quickly degrades and loses its "invisibility" when exposed to rain or humidity...
Utilizing small Square-footage locations in urban areas, the design debuted at the Fleet Center this July, and will be implemented in the Czech Republic, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore...
...fishing fleet do so much damage so quickly? Until recently, many fish, especially deep-water fish, were too hard to find to make tempting commercial targets. But technical advances have given fishermen the power to peer beneath the waves and plot their position with unprecedented accuracy. Sonar makes it possible to locate large shoals of fish that would otherwise remain concealed beneath tens, even hundreds of feet of water. And once a fishing hot spot is pinpointed by sonar, satellite-navigation systems enable vessels to return unerringly to the same location year after year. In this fashion, fishermen from...
...Force gave me a fleet of mothballed F-86s to keep my mouth shut...
WHAT KILLED THE BOOM To protect its merchant fleet, Holland built an armada larger than the British and French navies combined. But the cost of this outsize national defense caused taxes to rise sharply, and the Netherlands still lost its naval supremacy. The result was the end of Dutch mastery...