Word: 1970s
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...early 1970s, the U.S. may be able to keep its far-flung commitments without having large permanent deployments of troops far from home. Reason: technological progress will give the armed forces such mobility as to permit retrenchment to locations in or close to the U.S., from which they can jump off for trouble spots on short notice. Mobility will get its biggest boost with the introduction in about three years of the C-5A, a transport capable of carrying 700 troops at 550 m.p.h. One hundred C-5A sorties would enable the Pentagon to throw 70,000 troops into...
...mobile: instead of the present one company of 25 helicopters to an infantry division, it will soon have six helicopter companies for each division. The Air Force will continue to lose its long-range manned bombers, which will be reduced from 680 to 465 by the early 1970s, but the Tactical Air Force will add three wings to bring its total to 24. So far, Secretary McNamara has turned a deaf ear to Air Force requests to develop an Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft. The Navy, strengthened by three additional nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in the next few years, will have...
Some of the space fledglings may be assigned to a NASA orbiting laboratory, which is planned for flights of as long as 30 to 90 days sometime in the 1970s. However, the group's 18 to 24 months of exhaustive training will be principally aimed at following up the first manned landings of Americans on the moon. The class will travel to Mexico, Iceland and Alaska to familiarize itself with lunarlike topography. Among Class 5's possible missions: lunar excursions lasting up to a month, using portable living quarters and "moonmobiles," and an as yet undefined program...
...planes grow to take on larger loads. Douglas is already test-flying an expanded DC-8 that can carry 250 people; Boeing plans soon to start building a 500-passenger 747; and Lockheed intends to market a 700-seat commercial version of the C-5A in the early 1970s. Saving just one of those planes would easily save $10 million worth of airplane and a priceless amount of humanity-which would make almost any effort to improve an already excellent safety record a worthwhile investment...
Instead of financing the development of expensive home-grown weapons, Britain will buy much of its gear for the 1970s from the U.S., a decision that strikes a severe blow at Britain's lowflying aircraft industry (see WORLD BUSINESS). The R.A.F.'s new bomber force will be 50 swing-wing General Dynamics F-111A's, which Britain is buying from the U.S. for $297.5 million. The navy will be outfitted with four U.S.-type Polaris submarines, and the army will be regrouped in a few strategically located bases (Singapore, Bahrein, Gibraltar) from which units can be quickly...