Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earlier plays, Absent Friends. There is nothing out-of-the-suitcase about Way Upstream, however: the Alley production is perhaps as ambitious a staging as has ever been attempted by a regional theater. The playwright's River Orb has been regurgitated into a 20,000-gal. tank of water; a 24-ft. cabin cruiser has been assembled inside; and a huge sprinkler system has been installed to re-create a summer downpour. Ayckbourn has directed, as he did in Scarborough, and his players move as effortlessly as their roles-and their wayward craft-will allow...
...that Tuesday I urgently convened a special meeting of the WSAG. Staff was barred to enhance security. I reported the conversation with Dinitz and Gur, omitting the figures for tank losses. My colleagues were skeptical. Colby reported that Israel was doing well and was simply trying to obtain the maximum military aid from us before victory. Schlesinger's concern was that meeting Israel's requests and turning around a battle that the Arabs were winning might blight our relations with the Arabs. Other participants concurred. My view was that matters had progressed too far. "Israel has suffered a strategic defeat...
...from the Soviets, who allow only a tightly limited number of design changes as they push ahead with a project. Any idea that subsequently conies along is held for the next model. The Soviets generally need about half the time the U.S. needs to get a new tank into service. "The good old U.S. Army," says McChrystal, "is going to put out that IFV with every bit of innovation they can, and it'll be a monster." General Volney Warner, who retired last summer from the Army's readiness command, admits this is a problem: "There is always...
...both the military and the manufacturers to fix a design and then stay with it." Richard Wollensack of Itek Corp., a high-tech optics company, argues that advanced capability is what gives the U.S. its military muscle. Says he: "If you know that the other guy's tank sights are good up to six miles, you certainly are going to try to design yours so that they're good up to seven." Indeed, the Pentagon has long argued that the U.S. must counter the Soviets' numerical advantage with more advanced weaponry, especially when the Soviets are improving...
...Army's new M-l Abrams tank illustrates both the problems and the potential of overcoming Soviet numbers with advanced technology. At its best, the 60-ton monster is a marvel, roughriding over terrain at 35 m.p.h. while firing its 120-mm cannon with remarkable accuracy. Its revolutionary armor provides protection several hundred times as great as that of the M60, which the new tank replaces. Yet the M-l has been plagued with problems during development, and costs have now reached $2.43 million apiece (compared with $1.2 million for the M-60). The main problem was that...