Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army had bad news for Chinese commanders in Korea. Within a month, Eighth Army G.I.s will have a new weapon against "human sea" attacks - the 4½-oz. M14 anti-personnel mine. The M14's vest-pocket size (diameter: 2½ in.; depth: i½ in.) and its inconspicuous color (khaki) will make the laying of invisible minefields quick and easy. Its plastic case safeguards it from discovery by mine detectors. The miniature mine's capacity for destruction is limited-it is unlikely to do serious damage to a vehicle-but Army tests indicate that it has enough...
Like Sterling. In developing a new weapon tailored for an exacting Navy job, Grumman once more carried out its 23-year-old mission as the chief supplier of Navy planes. During World War II it turned out 17,000 planes, including Hellcat and Wildcat fighters, the backbone of the Navy's carrier squadrons. To the Navy, said the late Vice Admiral John C. McCain, the name Grumman was like "sterling" on silver...
...Force suspicion that the Navy is poaching on its area of strategic bombing. The Air Force is more & more convinced that strategic bombing offers the only way to win victory in the heart of Russia, that the carrier is a wasteful and militarily unsound offensive weapon for World War III. Among points made by the Air Force...
...began pitching everything out of the windows-books, typewriters, files, cabinets, papers, a safe. Then they doused the thousands of jumbled books and magazines with oil and fired them. The building was also set afire. Within an hour the USIS establishment in Baghdad, valued at $125,000, an important weapon in the cold war against Russia, had been captured and destroyed...
...tore on, paused before the English-language Iraq Times, and rolled paraffin under the steel doors (the Reds came well prepared), setting it afire. An automatic weapon chattered at the rioters from atop the police station. The mob, roaring like a wounded beast, rolled massively to the police station, set it in flames, tore apart three policemen as they scuttled out, and beheaded one of the bodies. A comparative handful of Reds, commanding an army of malcontents, had all but taken over ancient Baghdad, a city...