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B-2 Stealth Bomber Gets Upgrade, Joins the '90s

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the decade-late dept.

WmHBlair writes "Flightglobal has a report about the upgrades being made to the B-2A Stealth Bomber, which include Pentium class processors, JOVIAL code rewritten in C, and fibre channel hard drives. The Register, as usual, makes light of this event with a tongue-in-cheek news item noting that the upgrade drags Stealth Bomber IT systems into the '90s."

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  1. Re:There's a Reason for That by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What exactly is your point?

    The US Air Force, like the rest of the US military, is under the control of the civilian government of the US. Presumably, if a B2 has been tasked with blowing up some stuff, it is in accordance with the orders coming down from above. So, you would prefer the B2 to crash and kill the Air Force guys on board so it can't finish its mission? If so, why? If not, why your comment?

    Perhaps you just wanted to make a random clever witticism? If so, oh wow you are so clever, I've never seen that joke before, well done you.