Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admirals. Repeated changes in specifications, for instance, have been made after a contract has been negotiated and even while the ship was being built. According to Electric Boat, this plan-as-you-build technique caused at least 40,000 alterations in the design of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine. Most of these changes created a ripple effect, because shifting the location of one piece of equipment usually meant modifying dozens of other parts of the ship...
...carrier vulnerability extremely pressing is the growing strength of the Soviet fleet. Today it officially numbers 2,410 ships. About 1,500 of these are small and auxiliary craft, but the rest form a powerful armada: 233 surface warships, including 37 cruisers, 90 destroyers and 105 frigates, plus 260 attack submarines. In addition, some 400 long-range bombers, including the new Backfire, are based around the rim of the U.S.S.R., from where they can strike targets...
...Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, commander of the Soviet navy for the past 22 years, has modernized his fleet, increased its firepower and greatly extended its range. At one time his ships rarely ventured far from Russia's shores. But as he has commissioned new vessels that seem designed primarily to attack U.S. ships, they have gradually pushed down the Norwegian Sea and into the North Atlantic. They have steamed through the eastern Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, even the Caribbean. By 1973 Gorshkov was able to boast: "The flag of the Soviet navy flies over the oceans of the world...
...most extreme of all breaks from tradition is that the service now has 23,356 women in uniform. Some 20 of them are pilots and fly attack planes as well as transport and passenger aircraft. Other Navy women skipper ships. Boatswain's Mate Juanita Heaster, for instance, is based in Naples, Italy, where she captains a small vessel that ferries supplies out to larger warships. She says she gets "a thrill out of taking a boat out in the rough seas," but still feels a lack of equality. "The men think that women can't do the work...
...begin developing their country, they have imported a foreign labor force of about one million.) Their only hope for defense, they believe, lies in acquiring modern weapons, like the F-15, that require limited manpower. The Saudis believe they need a military force capable of holding out against attack for at least two or three days−just long enough for a powerful friend to come to their aid. They want that friend to be the U.S., and thus they regard the proposed sale of 60 F-15s, which two U.S. Administrations have supported, as a barometer of that friendship...