Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tanks, the teams simulate a water-borne row as best they can Indeed, many consider a tank more grueling than an outdoor practice. Tanks are shorter--25 or 40 minutes during the week, an hour "of power" on Saturdays--they are more intense, they take place indoors and they are by definition boring (an inherent charm of crew on the Charles is the scenery...
...they have-then the readiness crunch will be even worse. When the big bills come due, many of the overruns will likely be paid out of operations and maintenance funds. Under Secretary DeLauer has suggested that the military could cope with this by, for example, using the M-1 tank less extensively for maneuvers than the M60. "If the tanks are sitting around in a garrison, you're not going to spend that much," he says. But Major John Meyers, an Army spokesman, disputes this solution, saying that the M-1 will have to be used more frequently than...
...Dilger, a fighter pilot and former dogfight instructor, long to decide that he did not want to replace the GAU8 with some expensive missile. The General Electric cannon performed spectacularly in tests. Over a simulated battlefield in the Nevada desert, his A-10 pilots destroyed 65% of their targeted tanks at a distance of 3,000 ft., and more than 80% at 2,000 ft. The cannon fires off 70 rounds a second. Says Dilger: "We found that the optimal burst to kill a tank was only 35 rounds...
...suggests that the U.S. could consume an extra 500,000 bbl. per day of oil (a 3% rise in total consumption) if such switching became widespread. But otherwise the short-term response is likely to be limited. Explains Economist Joy Dunkerley of Resources for the Future, a Washington think tank: "If you've bought an efficient car, you don't run out and buy a bigger one once the price of gas drops 15?. If you've installed insulation, you don't just tear it out. People have made the investment, and they'll live...
Chrysler managed to make money despite a recession-induced 7.9% drop in sales of its cars and trucks (from 1.3 million in 1981 to 1.2 million last year). The swing factor was $239 million from the sale last March of the company's Michigan-based tank division to General Dynamics. Chrysler continued to lose money on operations, but the $69 million operating deficit was such an improvement over the $555 million operating deficit in 1981 that it was cause for cheer. Except for a painful five-week strike at Chrysler's Canadian assembly plants last fall that cost...