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...Supervillain: He may, as usual, have a superweapon trained on a Western capital, but Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), a freelance mastermind operating in today's chaotic Russia, has a dreary back story explaining how he went wrong instead of truly evil elan. Big mistake: we don't want motivation in a Bond nemesis; we want psychosis on a joyous, cosmic scale. Gert Frobe, you are missed...
...Pentagon touted the sleek, speedy M-1 Abrams tank as a revolutionary superweapon when it was put into production in November 1981. There was only one problem: the tank's engine, built by the Avco Corp.'s Lycoming division, had a tendency...
...superweapon philosophy that guided the development of the M-l has ruled the Pentagon since the end of World War II. In part, it reflects the Pentagon emphasis on preparing for a war of massed firepower along conventional front lines in Europe. More important, military reformers charge, the Pentagon has fallen into a "goldplated mousetrap" of always holding out for the final, supremely costly "last 10%" in technology that might give a weapon an unconquerable edge in battle. Even some military officers agree with this criticism. Says retiring Major General Volney Warner, chief of U.S. Readiness Command: "We have been...
...Boeing Co.; of pneumonia; in Seattle. Starting as a draftsman in the company's two-story frame factory in 1917, the shy, University of Washington-trained engineer became Boeing's president in 1933 and served as chairman from 1939 until 1966. Determined to create a "superweapon of the air," he spurred creation of the first B-17 Flying Fortress in 1935. By the war's end 12,731 Flying Fortresses had been built for the Allies and had dropped more than 640,000 tons of bombs on Europe alone. Its sister ship, the larger, more powerful...
...thicker vaults. Chicago's First National Bank has put in vault doors that weigh 87 tons each, the world's heaviest. Doors that size carry a heavy price: $300,000. Most equipment men concede that given enough time a burglar can crack any safe. He has a superweapon: the burning bar. Developed for demolition work, it is a long pipe filled with a magnesium compound that cuts through almost anything...