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...battleships lack antisubmarine and antiaircraft capability. While there is no way to modernize the 16-in. guns with safer automatic loaders, battleships could be converted to cruise-missile platforms, reducing the number of crew members and retiring the old-fashioned bagged-powder firing system. Refitting the ships with 320 Tomahawk cruise missiles apiece, as the Navy once proposed, would cost more than $1 billion a vessel, an unlikely expenditure at a time of shrinking Pentagon budgets. But if the damage to the Iowa is beyond repair, the Navy may have no choice but to replace the burned- out turret with...
...Rabta, 50 miles southwest of Tripoli and ringed with antiaircraft batteries, is primarily intended to produce mustard gas and chemical nerve agents. In a pre-Christmas TV interview, Reagan refused to rule out the possibility of a military strike against the plant. On background, Pentagon experts even suggested that Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can be launched by surface ships or submarines from as far as 800 miles away, might be used to level the suspect facility...
...Mani Sadr: Let me get this straight, when the Satan worshippers from America told you that the going rate for F-14 Tomahawk dustcovers was $28,500, you believed them...
Under pressure from its NATO allies, the Carter Administration had committed the U.S. to the "dual track" decision of 1979. The U.S. would offset the Soviet missiles by deploying a new generation of its own "Euromissiles" -- Tomahawk cruise missiles and Pershing II ballistic missiles -- while at the same time making a good-faith effort to negotiate with the U.S.S.R. a compromise that would scale back the missiles on both sides...
This year, however, a trend towards tradition has emerged. The most prominent example this year is the Atlanta Braves. The tomahawk is back on the uniform for the first time since the team moved from Milwaukee...