Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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June 3, 1980: A faulty circuit in a NORAD computer caused false messages to be sent to two command posts. Alert bomber crews were ordered to start engines, and the Pacific Command aircraft took...
...turn, the Air Force must have its new program--the MX missile--and, in compensation for the cancelled B-1, will probably get a new strategic bomber as well. And the Army, which already controls "tactical" nuclear weapons in Europe, will take charge of the new Pershing II and cruise missiles slated for deployment by NATO. The three services' ability to institute their individual programs, regardless of necessity, lends credence to John Kenneth Galbraith's warning to "never doubt the extraordinary power of the bureaucracy of the military establishment...
This ancient bomber is groping upward, electronically blind, attempting to join five others stacked in layers just 500 ft. apart. At 10,000 ft. the sky is an inkwell, and the primary and back-up heading systems are out. The radar works sporadically, and even when it does function, it provides tunnel vision, off to one side. The only dependable navigation aid is a simple compass, just like the ones people stick on the dashboards of their cars...
...Fellow. But there are Air Force men who think it should have been put out to pasture long ago in the Arizona desert, along with the retired squadrons of B-29s and B-50s. Some of them are hoping for a variant of the expensive but supersonic B-1 bomber, especially in view of the new Administration's defense policy...
...Reagan Administration clearly takes a gloomier view of the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons capability than had Carter. Weinberger contended that the U.S. not only faces "the prospect of Soviet strategic superiority," but that it also is failing to produce any more land-based 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...