Word: 16s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after disclosures that it had padded expense claims, offered a stripped-down version of the Fighting Falcon for $9.7 million apiece. General Dynamics estimated that the Air Force could save $1.4 billion over the next four years by buying a combination of 720 regular and modified F-16s. The price war was welcomed by both the Pentagon and Congress, which are seeking to contain weapons costs. A House bill calls for the winning plane to be chosen next year after Air Force tests of the rival jets...
...last week suggested one form of punishment for General Dynamics: to share some of the Government contracts with it. Northrop offered to sell the Pentagon about 400 of its newly developed F-20s, sleek fighter jets it is having trouble marketing, for substantially less than General Dynamics' comparable F-16s--and to guarantee the price of spare parts for 20 years...
...give the Pentagon 3% to 4% more in funds each year. Suggests savings of $150 billion over five years by killing the MX and B-1 bomber; by buying more small, conventionally powered aircraft carriers instead of two new nuclear ones; and by replacing the expensive F/A-18 with F-16s, A-6s and A-7 fighter-bombers. Would spend more on the readiness and manpower needs of conventional forces...
...Soviet weapons. The reports are not always upbeat. During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, the Syrian army lost more than 390 tanks, including 34 of the modern T-72s. The Syrian performance in the air was no better. Flying U.S.-built F-15s and F-16s, Israeli pilots downed 96 Soviet-built jets; one-fifth were newer-model MiG-25s and MiG-23s. Israeli pilots also wiped out 23 batteries of Soviet-built surface-to-air missiles. The official Soviet press dismissed the reports as CIA disinformation, but the Kremlin took them seriously enough and quickly dispatched...
...already nervously fingering their M16s. Upstairs, we hastily improvised a late lunch. Suddenly an explosion shook the building. We hit the ground and started edging toward the safest place in the apartment: a 6-ft.-long bathroom, away from any windows. As we huddled there, the clatter of M-16s and Kalashnikovs echoed off the walls of neighboring buildings. Now and then we would crawl on all fours to a window. Below us, the faint shadows of militiamen moved in the gathering darkness. Perhaps a mile out to sea, a U.S. Navy ship cruised past, a gray wolf...