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...second quarter of 1974 alone, inflation added $16.9 billion to the cost of 42 major weapons systems, a rise of 13% over their prices when last projected. The programmed cost of the B-1 bomber jumped from $12.2 billion to $18.6 billion; projected outlays for Trident nuclear submarines, each of which can carry 24 missiles, rose from $11.4 billion to $15.5 billion. Third-quarter figures are not yet available, but they hardly seem likely to be any better since the annual rate of U.S. inflation has continued in double digits...
...deliver up to eight individual warheads. The U.S. now has a huge advantage in MIRV missiles. By next year it will have deployed 1,046 MIRVS, including 550 Minuteman III missiles and 496 Poseidon missiles in 31 submarines. It should approach the 1,300 limit when ten new Trident submarines, each carrying 24 MIRV missiles, are completed in the mid-1980s...
...budget of $305 billion by between $5 billion and $6 billion, largely by paring some defense and public-works spending. Inflation will make this difficult. Last week the Pentagon reported that the original cost estimates on 42 major weapons systems under development, notably the B-l bomber and the Trident submarine-missile system, have increased by a walloping $37 billion, and by $16 billion in the past three months alone. To fight inflation, budget cutting and tight money will probably remain the two keys of Administration policy...
...loud quarrel also appears to be developing over Pentagon purchases of an other important weapon, the Trident atomic-powered submarine. In July, the Navy ordered the first of the mammoth subs from General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division for $285.4 million, the highest price the Defense Department has ever paid for a single item. Last week Defense confirmed that it had acted over the objections of the Navy's director of procurement, Gordon W. Rule...
...would give the U.S. a better chance of destroying Soviet land-based ICBMS. A danger: this first-strike capacity could upset the nuclear balance in the same way that the Soviets would if they MlRVed all their SS-9s and SS-18s. Congress also approved continued development of the Trident missile submarine and the B-l strategic bomber...