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Within the year the fleet's battle-experienced pilots, many of them Viet Nam veterans, will be flying two imposing new aircraft: Lockheed's S-3 Viking, which will be the first antisubmarine jet, and the swing-wing F-14 Tomcat, Grumman's new $18 million attack plane, which is to replace the effective but aging Phantom...
...arms race in history. In the past two years, Iran has gone on such an arms-buying spree that it has spent $7.6 billion in the U.S. alone acquiring one of the world's most modern arsenals. The Shah's air force will soon add the Grumman F-14 Tomcat Mach 2.3 fighter to its fleet of 60 F-5s and 200 F-4 Phantoms (with another 200 ordered), not to mention eight tankers for inflight refueling...
...game, the diarist has become his own literary character whom biographers must attack or defend according to their tastes and their times. To 19th century moralists, for instance, Pepys was that most off-putting of hypocrites: a pious lecher - a Uriah Heep who could preach sanctimoniously to a fellow tomcat while he himself was goatishly seducing pretty Mrs. Bagwell, the carpenter's wife...
...revenues to pay for the cost overruns that U.S. defense contractors often experience. Last week it appeared that he really might. The Shah's government offered a loan of undisclosed size to Grumman Corp. of Long Island to help it keep building the cost-plagued F-14A Tomcat fighter. Iran has ordered 80 of the planes, which cost $17.8 million each...
...brandish against Israel and, occasionally, each other. Iran, which fought in a brief border clash with Iraq a few weeks ago, bought $2 billion in ships, planes and missiles from the U.S. last year. Within the past few months, it has ordered $900 million worth of Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighters, and it is negotiating with McDonnell Douglas Corp. to buy 50 F-15 Eagle fighters, a model so new that the U.S. Air Force is still testing...