Word: payloads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warheads, while the Soviets have a strong edge in throw weight, or the ultimate explosive force that its larger missiles can land on a target. The aim was to find a formula for what U.S. negotiators call "essential equivalence." The U.S. wants to set a limit on the total payload carried by land-based, sea-based and airborne delivery systems; the U.S.S.R. wants to limit the total number of warheads, which would give Moscow a sizable advantage, given the bigger Soviet warhead...
...Russia about to surpass the U.S. in atomic arms? There is, unfortunately, no objective way to quantify nuclear capability. The debate usually centers on three measurements: the number of launchers, their throw weight (payload) and the number...
...airplane shoved the bales out of the side. One detail of the importers' operation, you see, involved a telephone call to a hotel in a famous south Florida resort on the same day the president of the United States was scheduled to visit. The codeword for the payload was "corpse," and so an alert operator smelled a plot with a higher and more violent purpose and had the call traced. By the time the smugglers' plane was in the air, it was already photographed and under constant radar and photographic surveillance. Which just goes to show James's ingenuity...
...Russians had flown about 9,000 tons of military gear to Egypt and Syria. Most of it was carried aboard AN-12 cargo carriers-similar to the American C-130-and by Russia's largest air transports, the turboprop AN-22, which has a payload of 80 tons (30 tons less than the giant U.S. C-5A Galaxy). The Soviets also transported an unknown quantity of supplies by ship from Black Sea ports through the Bosporus to the Syrian ports of Tartus and Latakia and to Alexandria in Egypt...
Salyut was not the only source of problems for Russian rocketeers. Four weeks ago a giant Proton booster - the largest Soviet rocket - apparently failed during liftoff, sending its payload crashing into the Pacific off eastern Siberia. U.S. space observers believe that the cargo, destined for the moon, included an improved version of the highly successful Soviet lunar rover...