Word: supertransport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost of $17.2 billion, but characteristically wanted to design a plane that could both fly between continents and hop from one battlefield to another, and that could carry heavy tanks and artillery yet land on short, rough runways. In May, the Senate Armed Services Committee, fearing that such a supertransport would take forever to build, all but cut off funds for development. The Air Force is now talking of building an unspecified number of new C-5A Galaxys (it has 77 now). But these planes can land only on long runways, which might be unavailable to the R.D.F...
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