Joe Cunningham: “Small point: The gentleman from Texas, Mr. Sam Johnson, saw three B-52's blow up. Those were shot down by SA-2 Fansong…”

“Small point: The gentleman from Texas, Mr. Sam Johnson, saw three B-52's blow up. Those were shot down by SA-2 Fansong radar in an old technology, post-Korean vintage. Today they have got SA-3 surface-to-air missile, all the way through about 19, and the advanced technology. We were successful in Desert Storm with the 117 because we could go over downtown Baghdad and not be seen. That is what the B-2 brings to this, instead of the loss of lives, much more efficiency, not only the cost of training pilots, but aircraft and our effectiveness in combat, and that is what we call national security.”