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...protecting mobility. Its 25-mm gun is not "highly inaccurate" but exceeds rigorous Army standards in all tests to date. The sticker price is not $1.94 million but $1.1 million, and the M113 costs $180,000, not $80,000. What's more, the vehicle's aluminum armor does not vaporize, incinerate or form a fireball. The armor is not "twice as thick" as the M113's-it measures 1 in., in contrast to 1¾ in. for the M113. Antitank rockets can penetrate steel and aluminum, but aluminum has no additional casualty-producing effect...
...Soviets developed the T-80 tank, which is a modified T-72 with additional side armor. Since then, 1,900 of these tanks have rolled off Soviet assembly lines...
...vest was confiscated at the airport. But, Reed recalls, the soldiers used armor-piercing shells anyway. He laughs boldly when he recalls this--something which suggests the lack of emphasis he puts on his own welfare and safety when capturing often devastating human adversity. Through his own modesty and even more through his pictures, he seems determined to promote slices of life otherwise scorned or ignored...
...trade and protect trade." Indeed, he points out, the stakes could be high. "I can remember some people claiming that rock-bit drilling technology was of no conceivable military use to the Soviets," he says. "Yet we now know that technology has been used by the Russians to develop armor-piercing shells. I sure wouldn't want my son to be in a tank facing Soviet-supplied artillery that had benefited from access to American technology...
Dilger set himself a second challenge: getting down the price of the armor-piercing ammunition. Pentagon accountants figured it would cost as much as $83 per round, which the Air Force was prepared to pay. Dilger decided not to impose any product specifications, telling the two manufacturers, Aerojet Ordnance Co. in Downey, Calif., and Honeywell's defense systems division in Minneapolis, that he simply wanted 30-mm ammo that worked, for the lowest possible price. The companies still compete hard, improving efficiency and cutting prices to win the major share of each year's production contract. Average cost...