That depends upon the small group, and whether you are a part of the small group, and whether you approve of what the small group does, doesn't it though?
There have been rumors for years (to the point where it's largely accepted as true) that the B-2 mounts small dorsal and ventral lasers of this type, capable of burning out a missile's IR seekerhead. In effect, they may be announcing it now, but it's widely believed it's been in operational deployment for much longer.
You know how they shot down that stealth bomber in yugoslavia? That bomber was flying the same route 3 times in a row. On the third time, three people with cellphones, and one with a RPG is needed. One person hears the plane pass, class the third. Second person hears the plane pass, calls the third. Third does some rough calculation, then times, and tells the RPG guy to fire straight upwards. Bam.
T'aint that simple, son. Stealth aircraft are optimized to fly at high altitudes.
What happened in Yugoslavia? Pretty much what Aldo said, except they launched about twenty of the new and fairly nice SA-18 shoulder-fired SAMs, and even so they didn't get more then one or two hits. What ultimately killed that F-117, though, was a stupid mission planner and an equally stupid pilot. One, for using the same route repeatedly, and two, for flying so low when he's safest at high altitude in a Stealth.
