Word: antiship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...merely a prelude. Some 42 hours after the attack on the Belgrano, the Argentines gained spectacular revenge. British Defense Secretary John Nott appeared before a dismayed House of Commons to report that a British destroyer, the 4,100-ton Sheffield, had been demolished by a French-built Exocet antiship missile fired from an Argentine fighter-bomber. The toll of dead, wounded and missing among the 270-member crew was 44; the death count was later announced to be about...
...reform some of these procedures, claims that the Pentagon's five-year plan will save $51 billion. Although this is due mainly to a federal cap on civil service pay and pensions, some of the economies are notable. The Pentagon dumped 60 marginal weapons systems-a new antiship missile, for example. In order to cut down on technological tinkering and design changes during development, the Pentagon now maintains that it will follow the Soviet example and rely more on gradually improving existing weapons than on ordering up entirely new models. An extra $2.1 billion has been included...
...aircraft last year, or about 37% of the firm's $6.1 billion in revenues. Analysts expect the commercial share of sales to shrink due to slowing air traffic and a rising backlog of government orders. The company's military hardware includes Harpoon antiship missiles and F-15 Eagle jet fighters. But McDonnell Douglas will not be dropping out of commercial aviation. It has signed a memo of understanding with Fokker aircraft of The Netherlands to study the possibility of a new 150-passenger jet that would compete with...
...firepower it has aimed at Japan from the Soviet mainland. The Kremlin has replaced its MiG-21s with the more advanced MiG-23 combat fighters and has moved a battery of SS-20 mobile missiles with multiple warheads, plus at least ten supersonic Backfire bombers armed with antiship missiles, from Europe to bases near Vladivostok, directly across the Sea of Japan from Hokkaido...
...Soviet naval activity has been on the rise, in both obvious and not-so-obvious ways. Soviet destroyers, cruisers and diesel-powered, torpedo-firing Foxtrot submarines have been passing through the strait at the rate of about six a month, while nuclear-powered Echo-class subs, armed with antiship cruise missiles, prowl the South China Sea. Malacca is so shallow that subs must go through with at least their conning towers awash and therefore tend to make the passage at night. But the Indonesian navy believes fully submerged Soviet subs have been testing the deeper waters of the Sunda Strait...