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...become too expensive a silver bullet.'' Northrop has since come up with a plan for 128 interim, kind-of-precision-guided weapons for the B-2 starting next year--about enough for a one-day bombing mission. Northrop is confident that a follow-on program will design a true pinpoint bomb for the B-2 in three years. That weapon's 10-mile range, however, will force the B-2 to fly much closer to enemy defenses than the Tee-Sam's reach would have required...
...drop nonnuclear bombs, and they're limited to a single type of dumb bomb whose primary guidance system is gravity. Thus, after some $65 billion invested in B-1s and B-2s over the past 15 years, the lone U.S. bomber capable of striking with pinpoint weapons is the Eisenhower...
...Claire Richardson Bennett '49, an Overseers nominee who graduated from Radcliffe and studied at the Graduate School of Design for a year, was quick to pinpoint her top priority...
...clad in "overwhites" for camouflage and will need more food, more unfrozen water, more heating fuel. Miles of white netting will be required to shroud olive-drab military gear. Snow fouls weapons, and cold air produces large clouds of condensation when the weapons are fired, making it easy to pinpoint the shooter. Helicopter rotor blades whip up mini- blizzards that can blind pilots...
Preliminary test results released yesterday still failed to pinpoint the cause of the epidemic that last week caused acute nausea and vomiting in hundreds of students, but the search may be narrowing...