Word: bombers
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...bomber. Scrapped by former President Jimmy Carter only to be revived by Reagan, the B-1 would cost $200 million a plane: at that price, which is certain to rise, the United States could afford only 100 of them. Carter rightly cancelled the planes because it was unlikely to be capable of penetrating Soviet air defenses and because the superior Advanced Technology Bomber or "Stealth" plane, would be available to replace the B-52 fleet early enough so that an interim bomber the B-1 would be unnecessary...
From France. The armed forces have 21 Mirage IIIs, still among the world's best fighters, five Super Etendard aircraft (a carrier-based equivalent of the Mirage), 120 AMX-13 light tanks, 16 Roland surface-to-air missiles, 32 MS-760A Paris II ground-support fighter bomber planes and three corvettes...
Reinstituting the draft would do more to diminish the danger of nuclear war than the MX supermissile and B-1 bomber programs combined. No one else dares to say it. I understand, of course, that risking a nuclear doomsday is preferable to losing the votes of the 18-year-olds...
Better B-l Bomber...
Your article "Fat on the Sacred Cow" [Feb. 22] said the B-l bomber will be an integral part of America's strategic deterrent only until it is replaced by the Stealth Advanced Technology Bomber (ATB). In fact, there are no plans to replace the B-l with the ATB. Instead, the Bl, ATB and large numbers of cruise missiles will all be used together...