From: "Robert Comer" 

> Same thing. Once you get fast missiles with good altitude the bombers got
> fields painted on thier upper sides as from then on it was under the radar
> or dead.

It's not so easy shooting down something that's going 2000mph+. Not only
does it have to climb to 80,000+ feet, it has to hit something going that
fast, add a dash of stealth and countermeasures, work the math, it's way
not easy. There's a reason no SR71 was ever shot down.

> UK TSR2 & the US F-111 (& the retasking of the B1 for low
level & the dev
> of stealth) are examples of the cognisance that this entailed.

Actually I think it was the Mig 25 demonstrator plus our ICBM capability...

- Bob Comer



"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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> Robert Comer wrote:
>>>As the CIA thought when they sent Gary Powers off over the SU in 1960.
>>>
>>>& that was just a SAM2.
>>
>>
>> Powers wasn't flying a fast plane, the U2 is subsonic, though it can fly
>> higher than almost anything else.
>>
>
> Same thing. Once you get fast missiles with good altitude the bombers got
> fields painted on thier upper sides as from then on it was under the radar
> or dead.
>
>
> UK TSR2 & the US F-111 (& the retasking of the B1 for low
level & the dev
> of stealth) are examples of the cognisance that this entailed.
>
> Adam

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