Word: 6s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machine's central processing unit. The first computers made do with a handful of primitive commands, such as LOAD, ADD and STORE, which programmers combined to perform complex tasks. Lacking a command to multiply 6 times 5, for example, they had to instruct their computers to add five 6s together...
Trailing only 300 yds. behind the observation chopper and flying slightly lower were two similar but fully armed AH-6s. They carried Gatling-like machine guns that could fire 4,000 7.62-mm bullets a minute. Their 2.75-in. rockets also carried a killing punch. The trio of choppers moved toward the tiny flotilla...
...Airstrike--Libya, April 14-15, 1986," complete with a printed map of the Libyan coastline, showing the location of suspected terrorist camps. True, the simulation is just a recycled version of the imaginary 1981 siege and is flown in an F-15 rather than the F-111s and A-6s used in the actual attack. Still, says MicroProse Executive Fred Schmidt, "it's a way to find out what it felt like over Libya, and, as our advertisement says, 'The best part is . . . no one gets hurt...
...bombers flying over the gulf had spotted a Soviet-built Nanuchka- missile Corvette sailing west out of the Libyan port of Benghazi. When the ship passed the twelve-mile limit, the A-6s attacked. Two hours later, at 1:15 a.m. Libyan time, the Aegis system aboard the Yorktown spotted a French- built Combattante patrol boat cruising the darkened waters of the gulf north of the "line of death." As the ship neared the American fleet, it speeded up. Kelso ordered the firing of two Harpoon missiles. "They saw a flash," said one official, "but we really aren't sure...
...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...