Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uokvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uokvax!emks From: emks@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: B58 and ICBMs Message-ID: <1200004@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 00:55:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uokvax.1200004 Posted: Mon Oct 1 00:55:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Sep-84 05:46:10 EDT References: <775@eisx.UUCP> Lines: 26 Nf-ID: #R:eisx:-77500:uokvax:1200004:000:903 Nf-From: uokvax!emks Sep 23 23:55:00 1984 /***** uokvax:net.aviation / eisx!jeb / 5:51 am Sep 20, 1984 */ > > From: bl@hplabsb.UUCP (Bruce T. Lowerre) >Subject: B-58 > >The B-58 went the way of the B-70 for essentially the same reason, ICBM's. >By the time the plane reached its target, the war would have been over and >done with for an hour! Given that the above makes a lot a sense, can someone explain to me why the hell our government is spending billions upon billions of our tax dollars to build the B1? Jim Beckman AT&T-ISL, South Plainfield, NJ eisx!jeb /* ---------- */ We're making the B-1B strategic bomber initiative to counter today's threat environment; I think even you'll concede that today's concept of warfare is somewhat changed from the days of the B-58 or the B-70. Further discussion on this topic should be directed to net.politics or some other appropriate place. Let's talk about aviation here. kurt