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There have been reports of worrisome weapons deployment by American clients. William Hartung, author of a recent book on the U.S. weapons trade, says American arms are playing a role in 39 of the globe's 48 conflicts. The U.S. in 1990 halted exports of F-16s to Pakistan, but not before Islamabad may have secretly modified some to deliver its handful of nuclear weapons. A Senate committee recently noted it had received reports "that U.S. military equipment, including helicopters, has been used in attacks against civilians in southeastern Turkey." Turkey, a NATO ally, denies it has attacked its Kurdish...
...scrap arms. Among recent donations: Egypt received 700 M-60 tanks and nearly 1,500 machine guns; Israel was handed 15 F-15 fighters and 16 CH-53 helicopters; Mexico took in 48,178 M-1 carbines. Greece and its nemesis Turkey -- both U.S. allies that already fly F-16s -- received freebies as well. Athens took in a fleet of 80 A-7 and F-4 warplanes, 671 M-60 tanks and a guided-missile destroyer; Ankara received 28 AH-1 helicopter gunships, 822 M-60 tanks and 72 self-propelled howitzers. Strangely, few of the beneficiaries of the largesse...
...example, of South Korea's recent purchase of 120 F-16s, only the first 12 planes will be made in Fort Worth, Texas. The rest will be built in Korea. In fact, unlike all 3,400 F-16s built so far, most of the Korean jets will be built not by a U.S. company but by the Samsung Aerospace Industries. "The Koreans," says Pat Lane, an International Association of Machinists union official, "are going to build a little more of each airplane until they have the capability to build the whole thing from scratch." Lockheed points out that the assembly...
Whatever the motive, the Pentagon and its suppliers are coming up with innovative ways to keep factories humming. The Air Force, for example, wants to sell some 300 used F-16s to such countries as Indonesia, Morocco, the Philippines and others that cannot afford new ones. It will then use the $2 billion profit from the sales to buy 75 new F-16s for itself. The McDonnell Douglas Corp. is helping Kuwait sell its fleet of A-4 attack planes, hoping that Kuwait will use the proceeds to buy the company's F-18s and AH-64 helicopters...
...fighters, rapidly brought up to 500, can quickly clear the skies of North Korea's large but obsolescent squadrons of MiG-21 and MiG-17 fighters. B-52s would carpet-bomb Pyongyang's advancing troops 12 hours after they crossed the DMZ. While there are only 72 U.S. F-16s in the South now, warplanes from Japan, Alaska and nearby carriers would arrive within hours of an attack, including the cream of the U.S. arsenal: radar-eluding F- 117A Stealth fighters and F-15E strike jets. The U.S. would also rely on sophisticated radar to pinpoint the enemy's artillery...