Prior to the inspections, Saddam's stealthiness had been so effective that none of the 40 were known to the outside world.

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If the U.S. public had known of the crashes, lower-than-expected stealthiness and other design problems that afflicted this aircraft early on, Congress might well have prematurely terminated its production.

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