Word: antiship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well along the development cycle also is the submarine-launched cruise missile (SLCM). A General Dynamics Tomahawk had its sixth successful underwater firing last week off California. Planned mainly as an antiship weapon, the SLCM can carry a conventional or nuclear warhead about 300 nautical miles. By 1982, the first of these weapons are to be deployed on U.S. warships...
...version, intended to sink enemy ships, carries a conventional warhead and has a range of more than 240 miles. Last week, at the Pentagon's invitation, about 40 reporters and photographers joined Defense Secretary Harold Brown on San Clemente Island to watch the submarine U.S.S. Guitarro launch an antiship Tomahawk off the California coast. While Brown, high-ranking Navy officers and their guests peered through binoculars, a sleek, 18-ft. missile burst from beneath the surface of the Pacific, soared up in a bright arc of smoke and flame, and sputtered out. As the missile tumbled down, a parachute...
...materiel to some 80 nations, ranging from submarines for the navies of Spain, Portugal, Pakistan and South Africa to daggers for Tunisian commando units. The best-selling French items: various models of the Mirage supersonic fighters, the agile and swift AMX tanks, Alouette helicopters and radar-guided Exocet antiship missiles...
...Sidewinder air-to-air missile (12,000), CH-47 Chinook helicopter (309), F-4 Phantom fighter-bomber (1,100), C-130 Hercules transport (230), F-5 fighter-bomber (1,500), A-4 Skyhawk attack fighter (460) and TOW anti-tank missile (12,500); France's Exocet antiship missile (about 800 sold), AMX-30 battle tank (1,000) and Mirage III fighter-bomber (700); Israel's Gabriel antiship missile...
...What I like doing," admitted a European arms salesman visiting Colombia, "is selling one weapon here in Bogota and then going off to Caracas to sell them the antidote." The most successful modern practitioners of this ploy seem to be the fleet-footed French, who first sold the Exocet antiship missile to Peru's leftist dictatorship in 1973, then leaked the news to neighboring Chile, whose rightist leaders became so jittery that they too bought the missile...