Word: bombers
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...Military. She supported a House resolution calling for a mutual, verifiable freeze on the production and deployment of nuclear weapons. She opposed funding for the MX missile, the new B-1B bomber, production of nerve gas and President Reagan's Star Wars concept of space-based defenses. On the other hand, she has spoken of the need for a strong defense and backed funding of the Trident Nuclear Submarine, the Pershing II Nuclear Missile and Draft Registration...
...early 1990s, Israel's new fighter-bomber should be ready. Called the Lavi (young lion in Hebrew), the jet is touted by Israelis as the most potent in the Western world, complete with state-of-the-art weapons delivery systems and electronic warfare devices. Israel Aircraft Industries began designing the Lavi in 1980. After several U.S. firms turned down Israel's offer of a co-production deal, the Begin government approached the Reagan Administration. Eventually, Washington not only agreed to share U.S. technology with Israel but earmarked nearly $1 billion in development funds for the Lavi. When it finally comes...
...Polls show him leading all candidates in the race, and his 35-year political career easily makes him the best known of the top four contenders. Like many Republican Senators and Congressmen in the Northeast, he is a moderate, favoring a reduction in nuclear armaments, opposing the B-1 bomber and MX missile, and supporting the Contadora call for negotiations in Central America...
...Kremlin then made a counterproposal, offering to lower the ceilings on strategic launchers (ICBM silos, submarine tubes and intercontinental bombers) from the level of 2,250 established by SALT II to 1,800. The Soviets indicated they might accept some limits on warheads, or what they called "nuclear charges," as long as the U.S. was willing to include bomber armaments, particularly cruise missiles, as well as ballistic-missile warheads. But the Americans...
...brain. Because it is small (about 18 ft. long) and flies very low, it is difficult for the Air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) on test flight enemy to track and intercept. There are three varieties: the air-launched cruise missile, ALCM (pronounced al-kum), which is fired from a bomber, and the GLCM (glickum) and SLCM (slickum), the ground-and sea-launched versions of the same weapon...