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...rolling through Gorazde and firing into residential areas, NATO dispatched six planes to search for a Serb tank lobbing shells into Gorazde from the city's outskirts. Bad weather forced the planes back, but not before a surface-to-air missile launched by the Serbs downed a British Sea Harrier jet. The pilot parachuted to safety in a Bosnian village, but the episode only escalated the tensions. Would NATO step up air strikes? Would the Serbs make good on their vow to take the city by dusk...
Some firms are beefing up their civilian operations to soften the loss of military business. McDonnell Douglas is phasing out production of such lucrative aircraft as the F-15 Eagle fighter and the AV-8B Harrier fighter- bomber. To help take up the slack, the St. Louis-based firm agreed last year to join forces with Taiwan Aerospace Corp. to build a new generation of commercial jetliners. At the same time, overseas contracts and proposals to modernize McDonnell Douglas military aircraft now in service could salvage additional jobs on the firm's production lines...
...isolate the Iraqi forces on the battlefield, the airborne troops could be dropped behind enemy lines from Black Hawk helicopters to lure the Republican Guards out of their tank bunkers. Once in the open, the Guards would be easy pickings for allied tank killers like the Thunderbolt and Harrier jets and the Apache and Cobra helicopters...
Despite its efficiency in carrying out Operation Desert Shield, the Pentagon is a paper tiger when it comes to penalizing its contractors for fraud and other crimes. Just last February Northrop pleaded guilty to 34 counts of falsifying test results on key parts for cruise missiles and AV-8B Harrier jump jets. In part because of those abuses, the Pentagon banned the company from receiving new contracts. But the Defense Department disclosed last week that it has waived the ban to allow the Navy to buy 104 more Harrier gyroscopes (total price: $300,000), which are made only by Northrop...
...prospect of leaner times ahead because of smaller Pentagon budgets was a significant factor in the cutbacks. Three of the company's four biggest military production programs -- the Air Force's F-15E Eagle fighter, the Marine Corps's AV-8B Harrier II strike fighter and the Army's AH-64 Apache helicopter -- are scheduled to be phased out in the next three years. The C-17 military transport is behind schedule, and orders for the Navy's T-45 Goshawk trainer have been cut back. The company is also teamed with other aerospace companies in several programs that face...