Word: cannoneering
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...electrically, as well as with hot-air jets, making them adaptable to a large variety of weapons systems. Elimination of cartridges would also solve a troublesome problem in tank turrets, where hot shell casings pile up quickly during combat. And V-L ammunition would be ideal for aircraft cannon, which sometimes jam when high-G forces produced during maneuvers prevent the ejection of cartridges...
This view is supported by precedent in the history of the House. Rule 238 of Cannon's Precedents states that it "is the custom of the House to defer final action against members under criminal charges pending disposition in the court of last resort." Thus, even if the powers of exclusion and expulsion were not maintained distinct -- giving Congress dangerously broad discretionary power -- the treatment of Powell, if based on his legal troubles in New York, remains unjustified. His libel case is still under appeal...
Olds-like most Viet Nam pilots-regrets the absence of fuselage-mounted 20-mm. cannon on the Phantoms. "Good Lord," he says, "would guns come in handy!" The reason: North Vietnamese pilots bore in close to deny U.S. pilots the long-range capability of their Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles. Olds has high respect for the MIG jockeys he confronts. "They'll be damned fine pilots if their air force survives," he says. "We'll try to see that it doesn...
Target-Range Marksmanship. Designed to protect conventional 140-m.p.h. Hueys and other troop-carrying choppers against ground fire, the Cheyenne will pack rockets, anti-tank missiles, a grenade launcher and belly-mounted automatic cannon. Even its looks can kill: if the gunner, using a computer and enemy-seeking infra-red sight, has his hands full with one target, the pilot, who wears a special sight-equipped helmet, can automatically take aim at another merely by glancing...
...Jimmy Cannon wrote in the New York World Journal Tribune: "He (Clay) desires martyrdom. But what religion has thugs to do its missionary work with kicks? There were Black Muslims in the mob of assassins that killed Malcolm X. The karate is an expression of their piety in street rumbles. It is Clay's cop-out that he is a minister of this furious sect...