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Northrup Grumman has built to original German blueprints, a non-flying Horton 229 flying wing in thier El Segundo Plant here in California to test it's stealthiness. Results: it would have been stealth enough that they would have detected it 19 minutes later than conventional aircraft; they would have had only eight minutes warning at regular altitude, and just 2 minutes when flying in at wave height.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529548,00.html

For those not familiar with it; a history of the Horton 229 is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_229

http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft ... aft_id=105

A National Geographic program about the study airs on July 5th.

Problem is - you need a bit more than stealth to win a war. There are the matters of payload, range and targetting ability (including fFINDING the target) among others....