Word: tomahawk
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...choices last Saturday, the Clinton Administration was just about to pull the trigger on the least-bad option: a punishing raid. Navy Hawkeye radar-warning planes were surveying the skies as dusk fell over the Persian Gulf. Down below, ship crews donned combat helmets and gave final adjustments to Tomahawk cruise missiles and F-14 and F-18 warplanes readied to attack. Air Force F-16s lined up their high-speed antiradiation missiles to target Baghdad's air defenses. "We were cocked, loaded and ready," a top Pentagon offiCIAl said. H hour was 60 minutes away...
However, it is foolish to believe that war has been completely transformed from the bloody battles of the trenches to surgical smart-bombs and Tomahawk missiles...
...Tomahawk cruise missiles one could buy for that amount...
...Curtis is in charge of fixing his own--and everyone else's--software screwups. It's a job nobody else wanted. Although the Pentagon began Y2K planning in 1995, repairs of the most vital computer systems were only 9% complete this spring. The F-15 and the Navy's Tomahawk missile are two of 34 as yet undebugged weapons systems cited in a report scheduled to be released this week. When pressed, Curtis admits that even the military's most "mission critical" systems--perhaps 2,800 in all--won't be ready in time. Officials insist that America's nuclear...
...TOMAHAWK CRUISE MISSILE In 1991 a stunned CNN newsman watched a ship-launched Tomahawk navigate past his Baghdad hotel room toward its last stop. We used 288 last time Cost: $750,000 each...