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...over land and water on its way into battle. At a shooting gallery, more kids lined up for electronic target practice with Army rifles ranging from the .58-cal. Civil War "Zouave" to the M16, or tried to knock out miniature moving tanks with a fixed "Dragon" antitank missile launcher, the weapon that will replace the present 90-mm. recoilless rifle...
...made its deadly debut during Tet. It fires a self-propelled warhead that can demolish a small build ing or blow up a bunker at a range of five miles. The 107 has about l½ times the striking power of a 75-mm. cannon, but it weighs-rocket, launcher, tripod and all-only about 200 lbs. v. 1,270 for a 75-mm.-pack howitzer...
Most impressive of the Cheyenne's talents, however, is its deadly arsenal. Moving in for the kill, the two-man crew-pilot and copilot-gunner-have at their fingertips six missile launchers, a swiveling belly-turret with a 30-mm. automatic gun, and a nose turret armed with either a 40-mm. grenade-launcher or a six-barrel minigun that fires 6,000 rounds per minute. A special helmet linked to an infra-red light beam allows the pilot to aim his fire system by moving his head, while the gunner, using a periscopic sight, can presumably...
...assassinate President Banda of Malawi? The following item appeared on the front page of the Daily Nation of October 15, published in Nairobi. The article read: "Rebel Arms seized in Malawi raids." "The President's Office in Blantyre said today that security forces have captured a rocket launcher and other arms from terrorists in South-Western Malawi in the past six days. The arms were mostly of Communist Chinese, Russian or Czechoslovak manufacture, the President's Office said...
...Viet Nam. The AH-1G Huey-Cobra, a waspish two-man whirlybird with a top speed of 219 m.p.h., can pack a 4,000-round-per-minute machine gun, a grenade launcher and 76 air-to-ground 2.75-in. rockets. Faster and deadlier than any other helicopter in use in Viet Nam, the Cobra is also far safer for pilots. For Viet Cong gunners it is a tough target indeed; it has been slimmed down to a svelte 36 in. (v. 100 in. in the old Huey gunships) by seating the pilot and copilot one behind the other instead...