Word: bombers
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Schlesinger notes that Dukakis has criticized several strategic-weapons systems. So have I. So has Schlesinger. The question, especially in a time of tight defense budgets, is which strategic programs to pursue. The B-1 bomber and the Strategic Defense Initiative suffer from serious technical problems. To question these programs is evidence of Dukakis' good judgment. On the other hand, cruise missiles, the Stealth bomber and an SDI program limited to research and development make sense. Dukakis supports all three...
...conventional-weapo ns negotiations will reduce the defense burden. To decrease East-West tensions further, Moscow and Washington have embarked on a series of unprecedented exchanges between their military leaders. Last month Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the Soviet Chief of Staff, peered into the cockpit of a B-1B bomber and visited the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt during a six-day American tour. Carlucci on his four-day trip planned to board a missile ship in the Black Sea and inspect the new Blackjack bomber...
...antiaircraft weapon that was scrapped in 1985 after a $1.8 billion development outlay. Moscow pushed ahead with its ZSU-30-2, a DIVAD counterpart, but despite a decade of improvements, the weapon's radar guidance system still does not operate properly. Many experts even sneer at the Blackjack bomber, which suffered flight problems and engine setbacks that kept it in development for more than a decade...
...sickness. No Yankee fan, no true Bronx Bomber, could root for the Red Sox. But I have...
Lloyd Jr. graduated from the University of Texas with a law degree in 1942 and enlisted in the Army. As a bomber pilot in Europe, he flew 50 missions. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after being shot down twice...