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Skriven 2008-02-06 10:19:16 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 10602 av Ward Dossche (1:397/22)
Ärende: Tunnel vision
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02 Feb 08 12:12, Roy Witt wrote to Ward Dossche:

 RW> Actually, those planes that took those stations out of service were
 RW> stealth bombers...their radar couldn't see them coming.

 WD>> In the Balkan war this was not part of the strategy yet and there
 WD>> were stealth casualties due to a modified SAM3-missile.

That is what the Serbs claimed, but it isn't true.

 WD>> At least one F-117 and 1 B2A (of the 3 deployed then)

There were only 2 B2s deployed.

"Flying nonstop across an ocean and two continents, a pair of B-2s  each
carrying 16 precision-guided weapons attacked multiple ``hardened''
targets, including command bunkers and air-defense systems, according to a
senior defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity."

 WD>>  were shot down. The B2A-crew perished.

None of the stealth planes were shot down...

"In a strike that consisted mainly of $1 million cruise missiles that
could be launched without endangering U.S. and allied pilots, the B-2s
slipped inside Yugoslavia's formidable air defense system, dropped their
weapons and escaped unscathed, defense officials said."

``The air defense system in Yugoslavia is very capable and it poses a
considerable threat,'' said Army Gen. Henry H. Shelton, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. Added Defense Secretary William Cohen: ``The
aircraft performed according to its capabilities.''

 WD>> Had launch-capabilities existed in Iraq, there would have been
 WD>> stealth casualties as well.

WASHINGTON -- If NATO launches airstrikes against Yugoslavia, they may
closely resemble the attacks on Iraq that commenced the 1991 Persian Gulf
War.

And allied pilots will come under fire from much the same weaponry.

Any strikes will ``undoubtedly'' start at night with ``cruise missiles and
F-117s, possibly B-2 Stealth bombers, and that will be an endeavor to take
out the air defense,'' said retired Army Lt. Gen. Thomas W. Kelly,
director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War.

``They (the Yugoslav military forces) have a similar air defense suite to
what the Iraqis had,'' said Kelly, who studied Yugoslavia when he was war
plans officer for NATO's southern region in 1979-82.

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