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Customs could have had its plane sooner, but for more than a year the White House opposed its development and the Navy fought the idea because, critics suspect, the Navy is committed to the Hawkeye for carrier operations. Grumman's overseas sales of Hawkeyes reduce the price the Navy pays. Big sales of the modified Orion could mean higher Hawkeye prices for the Navy...
Obviously, enacting any or all of these approaches would be costly and entail hard choices. But making such decisions is a President's job. For the $3.6 billion cost of one nuclear aircraft-carrier task force, of which the U.S. already has five, the country could pay the full four-year tuitions of 90,000 private-college students. By forgoing one year's cost of living increase in Social Security benefits, the U.S. could raise the average salary of the nation's 2.3 million public schoolteachers by $3,260. The question the next President must decide is which of these...
...more than a few Washington cynics speculated that the "human error" leak was an attempt to head off criticism of the Aegis system, the defensive backbone of the Navy's 14 carrier battle groups. Critics charge that Aegis, which can monitor hundreds of targets at a time, has never been adequately tested and is better suited to the open ocean than to the crowded gulf. "The Navy has to protect the Aegis," said a congressional staff aide. "If Aegis doesn't work, the carrier groups can't survive...
...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...
...combined effect can be gut wrenching. In the catapult launch of a Honeywell T-45 Goshawk trainer from the deck of an aircraft carrier, for example, the body is crushed against the back of the seat and the wind roars in the ears. "You forget the whole thing's bolted to the concrete floor," says David Figgins, a program manager at Honeywell. "I've seen top guns climb out wringing wet. I've seen seasoned pilots throw...