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...strange feeling that I'm back on the set filming Hellcats of the Navy. " Thus quipped Ronald Reagan last week at a scene reminiscent both of old-time Hollywood and of World War II: the recommissioning at California's Long Beach Naval Ship yard of the battleship New Jersey, launched in 1942 and now demothballed for a third time...
Critics joke that the battleship is so vulnerable it should be renamed the U.S.S. Sitting Duck. The Navy insists that more than ten hits by nonnuclear Soviet cruise missiles would be required to put it out of action. Reagan, noting that the New Jersey had cost $326 million to demothball, called the ship "a shining example" of "the maximum cost-effective application of high technology to existing assets...
...computers, with their prodigious memory banks and supersmart silicon processing chips, can paint realistic playing fields and speed the action up to nearly "real time." While aspects of the Janus program remain classified, it could be described as a computer-age variation of the children's sea game, Battleship. Janus, which is played on land pits the U.S. against forces modeled after the Soviets'. Two teams of players divide into separate rooms in Livermore's Combat Simulation Laboratory. Sitting at $100,000 battle stations jammed with the latest computer hardware, they slide plastic "pucks" across electronic graphics...
...executives had some surprising bits of advice for solving the problem. David Packard of Hewlett-Packard, a former Deputy Secretary of Defense whose company derives 15% of its revenues from defense work, called on the President to reduce his military budget by up to $10 billion. "Those battleship expenditures don't seem very wise. I think the South Atlantic fiasco proves that ships aren't safe from missile attack," said Packard. "I'd also recommend skipping the B-l bomber and going directly to the Stealth bomber." Agreed Jones: "There's a real question of whether...
Obliterate, a game in which a submarine and a battleship match tactics at sea, had already been available for many months. When the Falkland Islands crisis began to heat up, Mercury 332 assigned specific nationalities to the warships "to make the game more topical...