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...Army decided to provide infantrymen with cheap, light antitank bazookas. The Vipers were projected to cost about $75 apiece, but design changes began almost as soon as the weapon was proposed. The weight, it was decided, must be reduced to less than seven pounds This meant the warhead had to weigh less than a pound, which sharply limited its potential destructive power. The size of the rocket motor was also reduced to cut blast noise. By the time the contractor finished redesigning it, the Vipers cost not $75, but $787 apiece. Worse yet, the scaled-down warhead could no longer...
...commission, some members of Congress have floated reports that the group is leaning toward a two-phase deployment plan. In the first phase, an unspecified number of the MX missiles would be placed in existing Minuteman silos after the holes are reinforced to withstand a higher level of enemy warhead blasts. The Senate last year rejected a Reagan proposal to do just that with MX on the grounds that if the Minuteman is as vulnerable to attack as the Administration contends, putting MX in the same holes would do nothing to close this "window of vulnerability...
...study by Boeing Aerospace Co. suggests the feasibility of producing a 38-ft. intercontinental ballistic missile (SICBM) that would have a range comparable to the 7,500 miles covered by the 71-ft. MX. Its single warhead would probably carry a 500-kiloton punch, in contrast to MX's ten warheads, each with a 330-kiloton, independently targeted payload. Some Pentagon experts contend that a design breakthrough will permit the small missile to be moved about on a heavily armored vehicle dubbed the Armadillo. This launcher would be anchored when firing and be stable enough to handle the missile...
...issue is what stand the U.S. should take when negotiations on limiting nuclear weapons in Europe resume in Geneva Jan. 27. Moscow's negotiators presumably will then formally present an offer already proclaimed publicly by Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov: if the U.S. cancels plans to deploy 572 single-warhead Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe beginning in late 1983, the Kremlin will slash its own force of missiles targeted on Western Europe to make it equal to the number of launchers in the British and French forces. That would imply a reduction of 352 Soviet missiles...
...nuclear submarines, 36 deep-penetration bombers and 18 land-based missile systems. Says Hernu: "Anybody who tells me he would prefer an army division of soldiers to a nuclear submarine is living in the wrong era." One such purchase of costly nuclear weapons will be the multiple-warhead M-4 strategic missile, which is to be deployed on the new nuclear submarine L'Inflexible in 1985. "We want to stress our commitment to the nuclear deterrent," said a top government planner. But critics fear that the reductions will severely hamper France's conventional forces, unwisely limiting its military...