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...TIME'S commentary on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle: the Bradley was designed to give the U.S. infantry offensive fighting capabilities in addition to protecting mobility. Its 25-mm gun is not "highly inaccurate" but exceeds rigorous Army standards in all tests to date. The sticker price is not $1.94 million but $1.1 million, and the M113 costs $180,000, not $80,000. What's more, the vehicle's aluminum armor does not vaporize, incinerate or form a fireball. The armor is not "twice as thick" as the M113's-it measures 1 in., in contrast...
...milieu is not punk but the sensibility is. The film-making couple known as Scott B and Beth B have worked in the New York new wave underground since the mid-'70s, shooting on Super 8 stock and exhibiting the results in punk nightclubs. Vortex, made in 16 mm on an $80,000 budget, is their first shot at the relatively big time. Its plot is standard sleuthing in the corridors of power. A Congressman has been killed on orders from a reclusive plutocrat (Bill Rice). Private Eye Angel Powers (Lydia Lunch) finds the source of the trouble...
Military officers say the specs prevent cheating by contractors and help fill special needs. Perhaps the Pentagon did have to design a carrying case for a Bell & Howell 16-mm camera that could withstand both arctic cold and desert heat-but one may wonder whether the case is worth eight times as much as the camera it holds. Defense Department Engineer Ralph Applegate was fired six years ago for disclosing that the services were paying $1,130 a piece for piston rings that civilian buyers could purchase for as little as $100 each. Explanations are still being sought about...
...close-support" aircraft, intended to swoop in low over a battlefield and savage the enemy's infantry and armor. When the prototype jets started flying in 1975, some Air Force brass were worried that its GAU8 antitank cannon was not up to snuff. The nose-mounted, 30-mm weapon was like a Gatling gun, with seven rotating barrels. And like a Gatling gun, it seemed a little oldfashioned, unworthy of a state-of-the-art Air Force. Colonel Bob Dilger was ordered to Dayton to take over the GAU8 program...
...would cost as much as $83 per round, which the Air Force was prepared to pay. Dilger decided not to impose any product specifications, telling the two manufacturers, Aerojet Ordnance Co. in Downey, Calif., and Honeywell's defense systems division in Minneapolis, that he simply wanted 30-mm ammo that worked, for the lowest possible price. The companies still compete hard, improving efficiency and cutting prices to win the major share of each year's production contract. Average cost per shell: less than $15. Over five years Dilger used the savings to further refine the cannon, yet still...