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...aircraft to complement the $36 million F14. Congress bought the notion in 1975, after being told that each plane would eventually cost about $16 million. They are now priced at $32 million each. Much of the added cost and delay is due to improvements made in the Star Wars radar and guided missile control system designed to allow the plane to attack the enemy in darkness and bad weather. Critics question the value of such sophisticated radar, leaving aside its cost, because its use can alert the enemy and spoil any element of surprise. In addition, the Hornet...
...China's countervailing demand that all U.S. arms sales to Taiwan cease, the White House tried to split the difference. Taiwan could continue to get the F-5E, which it co-produces with Northrop, but could not have a successor plane, the F-5G, which can carry radar-guided missiles...
Though Reagan dominated domestic affairs, the same cannot be said of his handling of foreign policy issues. His strident anti-Soviet rhetoric increased cold war jitters. Using all his political wile the clout, the President won grudging Senate assent for the sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia. The victory staved off what would have been a humiliating public defeat but did little to advance any coherent U.S. strategy for bringing peace to the Middle East...
Fifth, the program proposes to upgrade strategic defense--by deploying F-15 aircraft to replace F-106 intercepters, improving radar, expanding research and development on ballistic missile defense, developing technologies for space-based missile defense, and expanding the civil defense program. I believe that a modest level of continental air defense provided by our AWACs aircraft when they are at home, together with tactical fighters at home would be worthwhile. To creat a more effective air defense, especially if it is to serve against bombers and cruise missiles, would require an enormous commitment of resources, but would defend us against...
...down with excitement over what they have seen." All five of the automatic experiments perched in the shuttle's open cargo bay worked, at least to some degree, performing various types of remote-sensing of the earth. The most successful machine was the big shuttle imaging radar, called SIR-A, which succeeded in making the longest single radar sweep in the history of earth-sensing, gathering one series of pictures over a 10,000-mile-long track, stretching from Spain to Australia...