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...most feared and efficient means of killing soldiers in the field. He notes that during the 1973 Middle East war, Arab forces fired 2,100 Russian-made antiaircraft missiles. They shot down 85 jets-but 45 belonged to Egypt and her allies. Lack of experience and skill with high-tech also showed up on the Iran-Iraq killing grounds where both sides used 1970s weapons and 1917 tactics...
...Higginbotham, manager of corporate planning for Government programs at McDonnell Douglas, prime contractor for the F18, agrees that part of the reason costs climb is "the inability of both the military and the manufacturers to fix a design and then stay with it." Richard Wollensack of Itek Corp., a high-tech optics company, argues that advanced capability is what gives the U.S. its military muscle. Says he: "If you know that the other guy's tank sights are good up to six miles, you certainly are going to try to design yours so that they're good...
...student of America's defense needs. He contends that the American armed forces rely far too much on expensive, impractical high-technology weaponry too complicated to operate and obsolete before it can come into general use. His solution avoids the naive polemics and wishful thinking regarding Soviet intentions of the disarmament lobby, and emphasizes instead smaller, less expensive weaponry. Drawing on examples like the army's success with the old M-60 tank and the unreliability of its high-tech successor, the extravagantly costly M-1, and on the strategic folly of basing the country's naval defense...
About 10 years age, the men of Cambridge Fire Company No. Five began planning for a major notation of their aged Italians-style station house. Company members and in man Square residents gazed longingly at the bright new high-tech station in East Cambridge. But before city officials could call in the wrecking crews, a neighbor-hood artist named Eltary Eddy proposed an alternative. Under the auspices of the Cambridge Arts Council, Eddy designed a 30-foot-high grouptrait of Company No. Five, a rural that would reinforce community spirit and justify saving the 80-year-old building...
...source of income. Tiny semiconductors made with chips of silicon that were first manufactured there at the end of the '60s gave the region its nickname-"Silicon Valley." Growing up alongside the semiconductor companies in such towns as Sunnyvale, Los Altos and Cupertino are a host of new, high-tech industries. Says Michael Shields, a catalogue marketer in Palo Alto: "Living here is like riding in the nose cone of the space shuttle. We're riding into the future...