Thread: Tu-95 vs. B-52
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Old 04-15-2008, 17:06 PM   #54 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Glyn
It most assuredly is, which is why so few were built. Perhaps at the time of the XB-70s life the USAF didn't have quite so many bean counters, or the strategists realised that SAMs were being developed to a point where speed alone was not the answer. I simply don't know the reason why it was dropped.
I think a fix for the skin separation problem was not within the limits of the technology of the day.

High speed SAMs and ICBMs signed the death sentence
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