If the bomber's skin gets too hot or wet it loses its stealthiness. Then it becomes a sitting duck for enemy radar. Using a stealth bomber, it seems, is like waging war with an orchid. You don't have to be Napoleon to figure out the military implications of this. If we want to sic the stealth bomber on our enemies, we have to stop getting sore at people like Saddam Hussein who live in hot places.
Wet enemies are out, too.
This is depressing news for all of us who thought a stealth bomber was a pretty neat thing to have. And it's not the first piece of depressing news either. A couple of years ago, the government confessed the stealth bomber's own radar was so nearsighted it couldn't tell the difference between a rain storm and a mountain. So, if you put all its defects together, it is obvious that a stealth bomber on the attack has very serious handicaps. But if it flies near a rainstorm and thinks its a mountain, it will just keep going until it gets soaked to the skin.