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Pentagon insiders fear that some other weapons projects will be on Weinberger's hit list. One is the Navy's new F18, conceived as a light, low-cost, all-purpose fighter. The price for the planned production of 1,377 F-18s has soared from $16 billion to $38 billion. The Army's new armored "infantry fighting vehicle," designed to carry troops into battle, is also in jeopardy because of its exploding cost: from $900,000 each just three years ago to $1.4 million now. Other savings for 1982 apparently would have to come from reducing...
...Baker, is "equal to all of our strategic ballistic missile systems put together." Drastic cuts actually had been suggested by Carter two years ago-and immediately ridiculed by the Soviets. In fact, the U.S. in the 1960s decided against building anything like the Soviets' SS-9s and SS-18s, which are liquid-fueled ICBMs, and developed instead the smaller and more accurate, solid-fueled Minuteman missiles. Moreover, the SALT I agreement, signed by President Nixon in 1972, and the Vladivostok agreement signed by President Ford in 1974, permitted the Soviets to keep the heavy missiles in exchange for dropping...
Baker seemed to be suggesting that the U.S. might offer to sacrifice its planned mobile MX missile for a Soviet agreement to give up the SS-18s. That would be a bad deal because the 200 superaccurate mobile MXs that the U.S. plans to build would have up to ten warheads each and would be more than a match for the stationary SS-18s...
...made in letters from General Hassan Toufanian, Iran's Vice Minister of War, after the barter proposal had been cleared by the U.S. departments of Defense, State and Treasury. The military equipment that would be bartered includes General Dynamics' F-16 fighters, McDonnell Douglas/Northrop's F-18s and Boeing's electronics-jammed Airborne Warning and Control System (a sort of flying command center...
...hinted that satellite photos may now be able to distinguish a group of MiRVed missiles from a group of single-warhead missiles. Although few details are available, it is believed that the extra ground equipment required by the MIRVs is detectable from the air. If so, only those SS-18s located near facilities used for MIRVS would be counted as carrying multiple warheads...