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Skunk Works Digest        Thursday, 31 August 1995      Volume 05 : Number 404

In this issue:

	SR-71 Doc.
	Re: Request for help on SKUNK WORKS
	There are a few large SAPs left

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From: Pionusman@aol.com
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 22:13:11 -0400
Subject: SR-71 Doc.

Sunday, the Discovery channel will air a documentary on the SR-71.
It is at 10:00 Mountain, 9:00 Pacific (Eastern and Central unknown, but
probably 10:00 EDT, 9:00 CDT.)
Check local listings for details.  

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From: Wei-Jen Su <wsu02@barney.poly.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 01:53:16 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Request for help on SKUNK WORKS

> 
> You mean the F-16 XL.
> The same type of bomb carriage as on the F-15E but on the wings instead
> ie conformal bomb-carriage under the wing and pretty near the leading
> edge too.

	One of the reason that USAF selected the F-15E instead of the 
F-16XL for a bomber mission is because the F-15E can fit two crew (pilot 
and co-pilot/bomber), and the F-16XL only one. Therefore, they figure out 
that a two crew aircraft will be less work load to the crews...
	
					Live Long and Prosper

					Su Wei-Jen
					wsu02@barney.poly.edu

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From: larry@ichips.intel.com
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 23:08:24 -0700
Subject: There are a few large SAPs left

The following is a summary of one item from AW&ST Aug. 28,1995, pg19, a
section entitled 'Washington Outlook'

IN THE BLACK

Pentagon budgets for SAPs (Special Access Programs) are continuing to shrink slowly.

AW&ST interviewed Defense Dept. Comptroller John Hamre regarding SAPs.

Following the emergence of the F-117, A-12, B-2 and Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile,
Hamre said: "We have dramatically fewer acquisition programs that are in Special Access."

"Those programs were probably 85% of all the Special Access stuff." 

What is left are "things that just the existence alone constitutes a valid
security concern."  He indicated that there are only a few major programs left.

The rest of what is left are pieces of programs, such as stealth aspects of the F-22.

Regarding future black budget reductions: "I'm not aware of anything big", Hamre said.


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