Word: seawolfs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Overdue as Cheney's order may have been, the armed services responded by leaking hastily assembled cut lists, studded with base closings and hard-to-cut weapons systems that are immensely popular on Capitol Hill. Conspicuously absent from the lists were such big-ticket items as the Navy's Seawolf attack submarine, the Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter and the Army's LHX attack helicopter. The Navy flouted the spirit of Malta further by scheduling a test of its Trident II submarine-based ballistic missile for Dec. 1 -- the day before the summit begins. The Navy's insensitivity...
Gejdenson warned that if the subs are cut from the budget--which would mean that for the first time since 1953 the United States was not ordering attack submarines--it could trigger layoffs and slow production of the new SSN-21 Seawolf submarines...
Gejdenson warned that an elimination of the two subs could trigger cost overruns on the Seawolf program further down the road...
...first SSN-21 Seawolf was ordered from Electric Boat in January. The original 1990 budget included what would be the final two Los Angeles class subs, with additional Seawolfs being purchased in each subsequent year into the 21st century...
...Stealth is just one of an array of new and expensive weapons -- along with the Navy's $3 billion Seawolf submarine and the Army's $60 billion Forward Area Air Defense System -- that the Pentagon plans to purchase despite the urgent need for the incoming Bush Administration to bring down the $145 billion federal budget deficit. Defense specialist William Kaufmann of Harvard estimates that the military programs already in the acquisition pipeline could cost more than $900 billion -- three times the entire amount the Pentagon will spend this fiscal year. "The B-2 embodies the defense conundrum," says Gordon Adams...