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Reacting to what surely appears to be an imminent enemy attack, the U.S. commander orders two of his F-14 Tomcat supersonic fighters into the air. With their Phoenix missile system, the F-14s can shoot down both the Soviet jets and the missiles they fire. Into the air too goes a U.S. propeller-driven Hawkeye warning and control plane whose sophisticated radar sees everything within a 250-mile radius. The plane's computers can monitor up to 300 targets simultaneously and report their location, speed and course to a computer aboard the F-14s...
...their first women, West Point is determined to treat men and women identically. But there are a few exceptions at the Point: women will learn karate instead of boxing and wrestling, and they will carry M-16 rifles, which are 2 Ibs. lighter than the men's M-14s...
...defense weapons. The cost of manufacturing the Draken or Viggen fighter-bombers, however, would have been prohibitive without foreign sales. Thanks to rising costs of raw materials, even U.S. manufacturers are beginning to require foreign sales to make their products cost-effective (Iran's purchase of 80 F-14s from Grumman saved that company from insolvency...
...such imposingly modern weapons as 70 U.S. F-4 Phantom jets, 800 British Chieftain tanks and an assortment of destroyers, Hovercraft and troop-transport planes. In a deal that probably saved Long Island's Grumman Aircraft Corp. from bankruptcy, the Shah earlier this year ordered 80 F-14s at a cost of nearly $1.5 billion. By 1980 Iran will have more fighter-bombers (839) than any NATO nation except the U.S. The Shah, a skilled pilot with more than 5,000 flying hours in fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters to his credit, insisted on checking out the Phantoms personally...
Radcliffe placed second in the nationals last year, with Angell co-skippering in the B division and winning three of her four races. This year she will sail A Division in 15 races, while Roehm takes on the B division competition. The event will be sailed in Lido 14s, a West Coast boat that neither skipper is familiar with...