It also is the result of extensive experience with earlier generations of low observable technology (including the SR-71, the F-117 fighter, and the advancedcruisemissile).
In recent weeks, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to sharply reduce the amounts requested for the rail-mobile MX and the road-mobile Midgetman missile, for the B-2 "Stealth" bomber and the advancedcruisemissile, and for the Strategic Defense Initiative in the FY1990 Defense authorization bill.