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...expected to be $5,000,000 for every F-111A, $8,000,000 for every F-111B. But the Defense Department continues to insist that the F-111 is a cost-cutting undertaking, partly because the Pentagon plans to convert it into a strategic bomber known as the FB-111, which would replace older...
Secretary McNamara says that the cost of developing the FB-111 would be a fraction of the $1.5 billion it would take to work up a totally new long-range bomber. The Air Force and its backers in Congress reply that a completely new "advanced, manned strategic aircraft" is needed for the mid-1970s, deride the FB-111 as an interim bomber that would not be even so effective as advanced versions of the B-52. The fight over the TFX, like the plane itself, seems to be entering a new phase...
...most hostile report of all concerned one of the oldest controversies of McNamara's Pentagon tenure: his 1961 cutback on funds for big bombers and his subsequent decision to replace them in the next ten years with the FB-111, a flashy (Mach 2.5) modified fighter...
...House Armed Services subcommittee's report last week accused Mc-Namara of "significantly misrepresenting" the case for the FB-111 in his own testimony, of applying "institutional constraints" on other Pentagon witnesses so they would hew to the Mc-Namara line, and of generally scorning Capitol Hill advice to such a point that the Congress has been forced into "a passive role of supine acquiesence" to U.S. defense policies...
...asked if the Defense Secretary were not himself weakening the U.S. deterrent by an overreliance on missiles. No, said McNamara: by the time the B-58s and older-model B-52s are scrapped, the U.S. will still have 255 late-model B-52s and 210 of the planned FB-111s-plus 1,000 Minutemen and 54 Titan II missiles in hardened sites, and 656 Polaris missiles in 41 floating platforms. One-fifth of this force, said McNamara, could rain "assured destruction" on both Russia and China-even if the other four-fifths were knocked out by a surprise attack...