Word: payloads
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...challenge of going to the aid of the hostages seems well within the capabilities of the aircraft. With its two turboshaft engines, it can carry an eight-ton payload. In one configuration, it can seat 37 combat troops. With extra, disposable fuel tanks, the aircraft has a range of up to 800 miles, and even this can be extended by airborne refueling. Last week the chopper had to fly only 500 nautical miles. But theoretical ranges can be reduced by a number of factors: extra-heavy loads, such as weapons and other equipment carried by last week's rescue...
...proliferation of land-based warheads aimed at the U.S. is the cutting edge of the "clear and present danger" of which Paul Nitze and other SALT critics warn. They fear that the increase in the accuracy, payload and number of Soviet MIRVed. ICBMs will soon threaten the U.S.'s own Minuteman ICBMS with a first strike. Such a capability could be an instrument of political blackmail such as in some future replay of the Cuban missile crisis, or perhaps over Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet in SALT II, the Carter Administration would have blunted that threat somewhat by limiting...