[GonzoGOP]

We have one of those, it is called the B2.

Well the guys at Northrop did borrow the only surviving Go-229 and the technical drawings from the Smithsonian during the design of the B-2. So while you couldn't prove it their may be some family resemblance. My point was rather than build it out of super high tech materials that cost billions, us plywood. It is cheap, easy to repair, absorbs radar, doesn't have rivet lines (that show up on radar) like metal, and quite literally grows on trees. And with modern resins it can be made more than strong enough for anything except a front line interceptor.

[calex59]

I agree that the use of Plywood in planes may have a purpose and certainly did in WWII with the advent of the Mosquito, much against the wishes of the government I might add. The Germans, however, lost out when their resin factory was bombed and therefore any building of Plywood planes had to be discontinued. They were working on their own version of the Mosquito(named the Moskito, spelling is off here, but close.)and of course their flying wing.

I am not sure how plywood would work today but hey, I think it would work quite well. A aircraft such as that would actually be far more effective at night, just as the B2 is, rather than a day strike craft although it would probably work there also.

The point is, and always has been, that if they have any fast movers, and believe me someone has them, then attack aircraft are useless. The Germans found that out when their JU87(Stuka)was shot out of the sky in vast numbers when they attacked great Britain without air superiority. Sturmovics(spelling?) only worked in Russia because of their armor and the fact they had control of the skys.

Without air superiority ground attack craft are useless, or next to it. A slow moving 200 MPH craft would be sitting ducks to ground fire(who needs missles with a plane that slow)and 37MM anti aircraft fire.