Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bazooka at a cost of about $75 each. But once all the designers and program directors had finished tinkering, the weapon ended up costing $787. Even so, it would be hard pressed to knock out a modern Soviet tank. Reason: its shell cannot pierce the tank's forward armor. Congress tried to kill the project, but there is still money for it buried in the Pentagon budget...
...overpower an enemy along fixed fronts. Even the new Rapid Deployment Force has become bogged down with such weapons as the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. John Boyd, a leading tactician in the reformers' camp, argues that battles are usually won by maneuver, speed and surprise. Instead of heavy armor like the M-1 tank, which requires fleets of fuel trucks and frequent maintenance, the Army should rely on light infantry units...
...pound, which sharply limited its potential destructive power. The size of the rocket motor was also reduced to cut blast noise. By the time the contractor finished redesigning it, the Vipers cost not $75, but $787 apiece. Worse yet, the scaled-down warhead could no longer penetrate the front armor of modern battle tanks nor stop Soviet tanks headon. The Kafkaesque solution: if the weapon will not do what it is supposed to do, redefine its mission. The Army decided the Viper should be used to snipe at tanks from the side or the rear, however limiting that might seem...
...there was any chink in his armor, it was up high, especially right under the crossbar. Just ask Wayne Turner, who lifted one over a flopping O'Connor in 1980 for the biggest goal in Husky history. Or ask Harvard's Dave Burke, whose insurance goal in the waning minutes of the '81 final made an unforgettable clang as it caromed off the bar and into the net. Or ask Burke's teammate Mike Watson, who scored the last goal O'Connor gave up in college hockey into the top of the net in the ECAC playoffs last March...
...case for camouflage. She never makes reservations in her own name; she often pays the bill with a credit card issued to a pseudonym, and varies her disguises. "I've thought seriously," she says, "of dressing as a nun or a Hasidic rabbi, or wearing a suit of armor...