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From the U.S. The core of the Argentine air force and navy consists of old, but updated and well-maintained American-made planes and ships. The air force has 68 versatile A-4P Skyhawk attack aircraft. In addition, Argentina has 14 A-4Q navy Skyhawks; seven C-130 transports; two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dealing with Old Reliable Firms | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

DIED. C.Y. Tung, 71, owner of one of the world's largest independent fleets of ships; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. Born in mainland China, he helped Nationalist China to rehabilitate its state-run shipping industry after World War II and then built his own 11 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 26, 1982 | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Stung by the public attack by McDonnell Douglas, Defense Department officials insisted last week that their choice of the Lockheed C-5N, which still must be approved by President Reagan, did not violate the competitive bidding process. Secretary of the Air Force Verne Orr advised McDonnell Douglas last August that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucky Lockheed | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Second, the program will develop a variant of the B-1 bomber, possibly deploy 100 aircraft beginning 1986, and will continue research and development toward an advanced technology bomber--"Stealth." B-52Gs and B-52Hs (and eventually B-1s) will carry more than 3000 cruise missiles beginning 1982. Existing KC...

Author: By Richard L. Garwin, | Title: Reagan's Strategic Plan: Right on the MX, Wrong on the B-1 | 12/11/1981 | See Source »

The geopolitical consequences of immediate majority rule through revolution seem equally unpalatable. South Africa would almost certainly become a socialist state aligned with Soviet bloc nations; the Soviet Union, directly or indirectly, supports most liberation movements suppressed by the Afrikaners, Socialist states have arisen in post-independent Mozambique and Angola...

Author: By Julian A. Treger, | Title: Slow and Steady in South Africa | 12/10/1981 | See Source »

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