Word: interceptor
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...Delay production of the Advanced Tactical Fighter from 1994 to 1996, but not cut the planned 750-plane, $79 billion program. Some congressional experts think the Air Force's present F-15 interceptor could last another decade...
...sides, though, are still far apart on aircraft. The U.S. has proposed that its NATO allies be permitted to maintain on European soil up to 4,700 general combat planes and 500 interceptor craft. These 5,200 planes would represent a cutback of about 1,500 units. The Soviets, with as many as 10,000 more planes in the landmass east of the Urals than NATO, have offered a ceiling of about 8,700. That, says the U.S. negotiator, is a "total nonstarter." There is growing speculation that the U.S. will seek to exclude aircraft from the CFE table altogether...
...Force could slow the development of their new generation of advanced aircraft. The Navy's F-14 fighter, still in production, and the A-6 attack jet, which the Navy wants to phase out, are more than merely adequate. Nor does the venerable Air Force F-15 interceptor need to be replaced by a proposed Advanced Tactical Fighter. These grand projects could easily be kept on hold for ten years or more. The Air Force should also forget its new C-17 cargo plane, which costs $318 million, and stay with the long- proven and dependable...
...Force's supersecret $50 million F-117A Stealth fighter is designed to avoid detection by sophisticated radar as it homes in on enemy targets. The Panama Defense Forces had no effective radar, antiaircraft guns or interceptor planes. So why were two F-117As dashing over Panama at the start of the American invasion and dropping bombs on an open field near a P.D.F. barracks? To wage a public relations assault on the U.S. Congress...
...camouflaged MiG-23 interceptor of the Syrian air force took off from a base near Damascus last week, flew on a training mission to the Golan Heights, then dropped to 164 ft. and zoomed straight into Israel. It landed on a civilian airstrip at Megiddo, 57 miles north of Jerusalem, where its pilot, Major Mohammed Bassem Adel, 34, asked for political asylum. At a press conference last week, he said he had defected because "I would like to live in a democratic state...