Word: warhead
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...former arms control negotiator, and Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, warned that the Soviets could take very dangerous steps in short order if they no longer felt at all bound to SALT II. Among them: digging new silos for additional missiles, replacing single warhead missiles with MIRVed ones and adding more warheads to already MIRVed missiles like the mammoth SS-18s (that now hold 10 warheads in accordance with SALT...
Libya's only military riposte to the raid was feeble. On Tuesday afternoon it launched two Soviet-made SS-1 ballistic missiles, each with about a ton of dynamite in its warhead, in the general direction of the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa. Fired from a military base near the Tunisian coast, they were evidently aimed at a Coast Guard navigational aid facility located on Lampedusa. Both missiles exploded three miles short of land...
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger has stressed the country's need to develop increasingly effective warheads and "modernize our tactical nuclear weapons." Testing is also necessary to develop systems like the nuclear- generated X-ray laser, which may prove critical to the President's Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars. In addition, Weinberger's deputy Richard Perle points out that testing more precise warheads has allowed the U.S. to reduce its overall megatonnage by 75% in the past two decades. "That," says Perle, "makes for a far safer and more stable world." Supporters of a ban counter that it would...
...poor test performance, succeeded in twice disabling a Libyan SA-5 radar station. Fired from the wing of a Navy A-7 Corsair jet, the missile homed in on signals emanating from the radar. A 14-ft.-long, 800-lb. weapon, HARM carries a 46-lb. high-explosive warhead over a range of about 40 miles. The Libyan radar resumed operations within hours of both attacks, but during a full-fledged battle, that would allow time for U.S. bombers to knock out the missile launchers...
...other naval "targets" with uncertain results. Designed initially as a surface-to-surface weapon, it scored one of its kills from an A-6 Intruder jet equipped to carry it. The 15-ft. missiles skim the waterline at 600 m.p.h. and smack into the target with a 500-lb. warhead. Powered by a small jet engine, the Harpoon has a range of some 50 miles...