Word: tomahawk
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...loudest baseball crowd in memory when the National League playoffs move to Atlanta Saturday, but it will add unique twists to playoff lore: the tomahawk chop and the war chant...
Pentagon officials, while delighted with the gulf-war performance of weapons like the F-18 Hornet and the Tomahawk cruise missile, have privately concluded that some other important systems were maddeningly unreliable. Secret Navy memos disclose that shipboard communications computers, the key link to General Norman Schwarzkopf's headquarters, were dangerously slow and out of date. Crucial orders from Riyadh were transmitted to some naval vessels at pokey telex speed, often arriving in more than 20 separate pieces and taking up to six hours to be completed. (Personal computers found in many homes can transmit data 10 to 20 times...
Proud as punch of the Patriot? Amazed at the quiet swish and lethal accuracy of the Tomahawk? Awed by the Apache helicopter and its tank-killing Hellfire missile? So, too, are the U.S. military services, the Bush Administration, the Congress -- and a host of defense contractors eager to turn the war-born popularity of their fearsome weapons into a new splurge of arms spending and big profits. Such is the congressional passion for these high-tech marvels that a new "war dividend" of great value to many people -- but decidedly not to the beleaguered American taxpayer -- is being doled...
...gulf war spectacular had been a movie, the credits could have listed Jimmy Carter as a progenitor of the Tomahawk cruise missile and Ronald Reagan as merchant prince of the huge weapons inventory that crushed the evil foe. But the fellow who may actually have had more to do with authoring the success story is never mentioned: Jerry Ford...
...furthermore, that the $70 million F-117A stealth fighter-bomber is not only a lot cheaper than the B-2 but also brilliantly effective; according to the Pentagon, it has had a 95% accuracy record in hitting its targets in Iraq. Another challenge to the B-2 is the Tomahawk cruise missile, which costs only $1 million. Tomahawks had a reported 90% success rate in the gulf war. Congressional critics might decide that these factors will overwhelm those favoring...