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...Chairman Melvin Price, an Illinois Democrat, complained that the Pentagon lacked proof that "36 MX missiles in Titan silos will be any less vulnerable than the missiles presently in those silos." Many House members, as did some Senators, also attacked the Administration's plan to build 100 new B-l bombers at a cost of $200 million apiece...
Weinberger is said to be disappointed that so much attention has been focused on the MX missile and B-l bomber decisions. He feels that Reagan's proposal to improve U.S. radar and satellite communication systems, which went all but unquestioned at the hearings, is just as important as building new weapons. With these improvements, the President would be better able to launch a retaliatory strike while an enemy attack was under way, but before all American silos had been...
...everything' approach." In the fiscal 1981 and 1982 budgets, he says, "we needed to do so much so quickly that the priority problem did not loom as large as it will in the future. Now, for '83 we are coming upon situations that will require some choices." Beyond the B-l and MX, some of the major choices involve...
...both parties are jousting with the White House over the price tags on the new F-16 and F-18 fighter planes and the advantages of ground vs. ship-launched cruise missiles. Battle lines are already being drawn for upcoming debates over the MX missile and a new B-l bomber. Even the Administration's proposal to reactivate two mothballed warships, including the World War II battleship New Jersey, has run into strong Senate opposition. Critics contend the ships simply are not worth the salvage cost...
...missiles or bombers. The U.S.S.R. meanwhile is "mass-producing both." To correct this, Weinberger advocated a new manned bomber designed to penetrate Soviet air defenses. He asked for $2.4 billion next year to develop such an aircraft, promising to decide by June 15 whether it would be an updated B-l design or a modification...