Word: 16s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, reserve units with F-16s are getting some of the best scores. "They're fossils," admits Korea-based "driver" Captain Taylor Gates, 29, "but they're good." Indeed they are. An active-duty squad from Hill A.F.B., Utah, won the team competition -- Anderson's team took fifth -- but a fossil, Major Danny Hamilton, 41, flying with a reserve unit at the same Utah base, won the individual award. Not only is Hamilton a former active-duty pilot who bailed out in mid-career rather than fly a desk, he is also a computer expert. He trusts avionics software...
...issue are three air bases, a naval station and other facilities maintained by 12,000 American troops. Of special concern is the Torrejon air base outside Madrid, which houses 72 F-16 fighters assigned to help protect NATO's southern and central flanks. The Spanish want all the F-16s redeployed to some other country. The U.S. has offered to remove one-third of them. Concluded a European diplomat: "The two sides are at a dead...
Play guns are a $200 million-a-year market for U.S. toymakers, with about 75% ( of sales devoted to fake military weapons, including look-alike Uzi machine guns and M-16s. Those toys can turn deadly for their wielders, whether they are used by holdup artists who may draw defensive fire from police or robbery victims, or by innocent youngsters whose intent is mistaken by police...
...rocket attacks inside Pakistan have claimed at least 297 lives. During all of 1986, only about 24 people were killed in similar raids. The increase in the number of strikes prompted Pakistan to send President Reagan an "extremely urgent" request for U.S. radar surveillance planes to direct Pakistani F-16s against intruders along the country's 1,400-mile border with Afghanistan...
...because the radar planes may be of little help. Afghan and Soviet MiGs fly toward Pakistan's border frequently but cross the border less often. Even then, they typically spend only a few minutes in Pakistani airspace. Says a retired Pakistani officer: "Our air force cannot scramble its F-16s every time Afghan warplanes head east." The Afghans have the option of relying more on terror bombing, or on cross-border shelling, which alone has caused several deaths in recent weeks and forced 14,000 Pakistanis to flee from the border area...