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...messages-from an F-15 pilot reporting a "kill" during a training mission-tells much about modern air combat and why the planes best at it are in demand. Translated, the pilot's message is that his radar has locked onto an enemy plane-a "Judy" in U.S. airmen's jargon-67° to the right of his aircraft and that the missile he fired sent the enemy spiraling into the sea. Flying at speeds of up to 2,000 m.p.h.-33 miles a minute-the pilot got his splash faster than it took him to tell about...
...meal in Swiss francs has not changed. In West Germany, where the inflation rate has been running at about 4%, Americans exchanging their dollars for deutsche mark have suffered a 34.5% loss in purchasing power during the past two years. Hardest hit are the 224,000 U.S. soldiers and airmen stationed in the Federal Republic, especially low-ranking G.I.s with families that they must house in off-base apartments...
...with U.S. air and logistical support, but without U.S. ground forces. The North and South Korean armies are roughly comparable; about 600,000 troops on each side. The North has superior firepower both in the air and on the ground, but the U.S. plans to keep its 7,100 airmen in the South...
...Shah Muhammad Reza, disputing a recent Senate study, claims Iranian soldiers and airmen can master their new U.S. weapons systems and that American technicians--more than 20,000 are now in Iran--would not become embroiled in a future Iranian...
...game by directly implying, in an interview on British television, that if the nation's allies insist on stern conditions for the IMF loan, then Britain will have to reduce its contributions to NATO. The country's primary contribution is the maintenance of 55,000 soldiers and airmen in Germany. The government seems to be thinking in terms of a cut of $795 million a year in defense spending, which would mean a reduction in that force to 40,000 men-later, perhaps, to 30,000. That such a threat-some might even call it blackmail-could...