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Still smarting over glitches in its newly activated B-1B bomber, the Air Force is now catching flak over its aircraft of the future, the radar-elusive Stealth bomber. Congressional critics say that technical and managerial problems are exponentially raising the project's cost. A reported $8 billion will be spent on the plane before it enters production early next year, and each of the 132 aircraft could cost more than $300 million, $23 million above the original price...
...fiscal 1988 budget supplement of $51.5 million to hire 955 more air-traffic personnel, including 580 more controllers. That would bring the total ranks of controllers to 15,805. Meanwhile, the FAA is in the midst of a ten-year, $16 billion project to upgrade air-traffic computers, radar and other systems so that controllers will be able to handle swarms of planes with far greater precision...
...year more than 100 aerial bomb and rocket attacks inside Pakistan have claimed at least 297 lives. During all of 1986, only about 24 people were killed in similar raids. The increase in the number of strikes prompted Pakistan to send President Reagan an "extremely urgent" request for U.S. radar surveillance planes to direct Pakistani F-16s against intruders along the country's 1,400-mile border with Afghanistan...
Another potential problem is that Pakistan's original request is starting to look disingenuous, if only because the radar planes may be of little help. Afghan and Soviet MiGs fly toward Pakistan's border frequently but cross the border less often. Even then, they typically spend only a few minutes in Pakistani airspace. Says a retired Pakistani officer: "Our air force cannot scramble its F-16s every time Afghan warplanes head east." The Afghans have the option of relying more on terror bombing, or on cross-border shelling, which alone has caused several deaths in recent weeks and forced...
...next move, the Navy released its report on the May 17 Iraqi missile attack on the U.S.S. Stark, which killed 37 sailors and crippled the frigate. The report left unclarified the central mystery: Why had the Stark not taken prompt action to defend itself when an Iraqi plane's radar locked on to it? According to the Navy, the Stark's antimissile weapons were "operational," meaning they could have been activated by the push of a button, but no button was pushed...