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...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...
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...