-Caveat Lector-
"We determined some time ago that it was not a good idea to link human
rights and trade."
--- Madeline Albright on US policy towards China
(One should read the current issue of The New American about the cultural
devastation of China's "one child" policy; it's frightening Folks)
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Subject: [piml] Fw: Air Force Concerned Russia May Get Stealth
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Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 9:16 PM
Subject: [patriotawareness] [Fwd: IP: Air Force Concerned Russia May Get
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>> Source: Albuquerque Journal
>> http://www.abqjournal.com/paperboy/link/news/3kosovo04-03.htm
>>
>> Saturday, April 3, 1999
>>
>> Air Force Concerned Russia May Get Stealth
>>
>> By John J. Lumpkin
>> Journal Staff Writer
>>
>> The Air Force is concerned about reports that Yugoslavia is giving
Russia
>> the wreckage of a Holloman Air Force Base F-117A Nighthawk Stealth
fighter
>> downed near Belgrade, a spokesman said.
>>
>> If the Russians, who are traditional allies of the Serbs, gain
>> access to stealth technology, they could begin developing
>> stealth weapons of their own, and they could also come up
>> with an effective defense against them, defense analysts said.
>>
>> Both the Agence France-Presse and the Russian news
>> agency ITAR-TASS reported Friday that Yugoslavian
>> authorities planned to give the Stealth wreckage to Russians.
>>
>> The United States is the only nation to deploy attack planes
>> and bombers using stealth technology, which makes the
>> planes extremely difficult for radar and other sensors to
>> detect.
>>
>> A Stealth fighter from Holloman's 49th Fighter Wing was
>> apparently shot down during a mission over Yugoslavia on
>> March 27. Its pilot, who has not been identified, was rescued
>> after he ejected.
>>
>> That Stealth fighter was the first lost on a combat mission in
>> the aircraft's 20-year history. The planes, which drop
>> precision-guided munitions, flew hundreds of missions over
>> Iraq during the Gulf War in 1991 without a single loss.
>>
>> Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon and other defense
>> officials said the fighter's ability to penetrate enemy airspace
>> undetected outweighed the potential loss of the technology
>> should it be shot down.
>>
>> "This is 22-year-old technology," Bacon said in a briefing
>> transcript published Friday on the Internet. "We have moved
>> beyond the initial stealth technology in our own designs. But
>> to the extent that other countries have not been able to
>> duplicate our ability in stealth, there obviously is some risk."
>>
>> The secret to the Stealth fighter, built at Lockheed's Skunk
>> Works in California, lies in the chemical composition of its
>> coating and in its boomerang shape, both of which prevent
>> radar signals from returning to their source.
>>
>> "We believe it is technology that is quite difficult to
>> duplicate," Bacon said. "It requires very sensitive production
>> processes; it requires quite a lot of computerized design."
>>
>> The $45 million Stealth fighter was developed in secret in
>> the late 1970s and its existence wasn't made public until years
>> later. Stealths came to Holloman in 1992.
>>
>> Piers Wood, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army
>> Reserve with the Washington-based Center for Defense
>> Information, said the Russians will need some time to
>> understand stealth technology.
>>
>> "I'd expect them to reverse-engineer it and see what makes
>> it stealthy and see if it's of any value to them," Wood said in a
>> telephone interview Friday.
>>
>> "This is spy-vs.-spy kind of stuff. This is not bad guy vs.
>> good guy. It's exactly what we do with their stuff," he added,
>> noting the United States recently bought several
>> Russian-made MiG-29s from former Soviet republics to see
>> what makes them tick.
>>
>> "I'm not worried about F-117s (over Yugoslavia) getting
>> shot down by a bunch of new Russian SAMs (surface-to-air
>> missiles)," he said. "Things are not moving fast in Russia right
>> now."
>>
>> Russia is not the only country interested in learning the
>> secrets of stealth technology, he added.
>>
>> Holloman officials said they had heard the reports about
>> the fate of the wreckage.
>>
>> "We are concerned about it," said spokesman Airman 1st
>> Class Chris Uhles. "We do everything we can to protect our
>> technology and our resources. From the pictures I saw (of
>> the wreckage), I'm not sure there's going to be much left."
>>
>> Holloman sent a dozen F-117s to Aviano Air Base, Italy,
>> in February in anticipation of conflict with Yugoslavia. The
>> fighters have participated in strikes since the beginning of the
>> NATO operations.
>>
>> On Thursday, the Pentagon announced another dozen
>> planes from Holloman -- the nation's only Stealth fighter base
>> -- would be sent into battle, plus possibly a 13th fighter to
>> replace the lost one.
>>
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