Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Aircraft's Sikorsky Helicopter Division (Stratford, Conn.), CH-53 and HH-3 helicopters; $126 million...
...Hughes Aircraft Co. (Culver City, Calif.), TOW and Maverick missiles, and electronics; $122.3 million...
...Corp. (Dallas), A-7 fighter aircraft; $90.9 million...
...each plane will cost $111 million-the most expensive plane ever built by the Air Force. Packed with computers, radars and jamming gear, the AW ACS will be able to spot far-off targets, including very low-flying planes, and feed instructions to wide-ranging U.S. combat aircraft. Over the English Channel recently, a prototype plane was able to direct an entire simulated NATO battlefront, even while it was keeping an eye on aerial movements in East European and Russian airspace as far away as Moscow...
...ships and planes, the U.S. Navy is taking a new look at such surface-to-surface weapons. Descendants of the Nazi V-l "buzz bombs" of World War II, cruise missiles are similar to unmanned planes. Equipped with turbine engines and stubby wings, they can be launched from ships, aircraft or even submerged submarines; a rocket booster propels the missile until it breaks through the water's surface and its engine takes over. When equipped with a terrain-following electronic guidance system, which is now being developed, it should be able to skim great distances over land or water...