Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that U.S.-Soviet relations have become tense because of Soviet military buildups in Aden and Iraq. The U.S. believes the Soviets aim at cutting off oil supplies, and it "surges" an eastern task force into the Indian Ocean. This includes an aircraft-carrier strike group, a convoy escort group, attack submarines and antisubmarine patrol planes. The Soviet forces in the area include land-based bombers, missile-firing submarines, cruisers, destroyers and high-speed missile boats. The computer?the Warfare Analysis and Research System (WARS)?projects a display of the positions, speeds and courses of the ships involved...
Reacting to what surely appears to be an imminent enemy attack, the U.S. commander orders two of his F-14 Tomcat supersonic fighters into the air. With their Phoenix missile system, the F-14s can shoot down both the Soviet jets and the missiles they fire. Into the air too goes a U.S. propeller-driven Hawkeye warning and control plane whose sophisticated radar sees everything within a 250-mile radius. The plane's computers can monitor up to 300 targets simultaneously and report their location, speed and course to a computer aboard...
...surprise Soviet attack. For this reason there is little opposition to modernizing the strategic submarine fleet by building 14 Tridents, at a cost of about $1.2 billion each. The current budget, in fact, provides $2.9 billion for the Trident program...
...performing the two major missions that have been assigned to them since the end of World War II. They are: ? Projecting power abroad. This primarily means using the warplanes and Marine Corps detachments aboard aircraft carriers stationed in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic to help repel any Soviet attack against the relatively poorly defended flanks of NATO. The Sixth Fleet's two carriers, for instance, can rapidly commit more than 100 fighter-bombers, about half a dozen early-warning command-and-control aircraft and 1,800 Marines to battle on eastern Mediterranean shores in support of Greece and Turkey...
...basic reason for the Navy's current crisis over new ships is that the ships have grown incredibly complex and their costs have soared. A Spruance-class destroyer costs $134.2 million; its World War II destroyer counterpart was only $5 million. The price tag on attack submarines has risen from $3.9 million in 1946 to $284 million...