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...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...
...extremely sensitive project, Stealth was talked about amazingly early, and often. A former official of an aerospace company reports that he heard as early as 1962 about a project to develop a plane that would be nearly invisible to radar. Stories about the aircraft began appearing in such technical journals as Defense Daily and Aerospace Daily as early as 1975. The Stealth project was not even stamped classified until 1977 by Defense Secretary Harold Brown; items continued to appear after that year. In 1979 a novel called Poseidon's Shadow described the use of an oddly shaped...
Still, up until early August, the details of the project were as shadowy as the plane was meant to be on a radar screen. All that was generally known was that the U.S. was working on some sort of radar-foiling aircraft, although aspects of the program had been quietly incorporated into the design of the operational SR-71 reconnaissance 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...
Before TV camera crews and about 100 reporters, Brown 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...
...great carrier puts out to sea from Pearl Harbor on a routine exercise, only to encounter this really nasty bit of weather. The old salts have never seen such lightning before, or heard such a strange roar from the ocean. The disturbance does not even register on the radar screen...