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...substantial forces that the U.S.S.R. could thrust across its border with Iran. The best the R.D.F. could do would be to land a small "tripwire" force around the oilfields in southern Iran, which the Soviets could not crash through without inviting either massive bombing attacks by American B-52s and FB-111s flying from forward bases in a friendly country, or?the worst-case scenario?the use of nuclear options by the U.S. Some military experts argue that Soviet gains in the Middle East or Southwest Asia are more likely to be achieved by leftist subversion of established regimes than...
...them, it appeared, was a stockade with towers. Perhaps most persuasive, an aerial photograph showed the numerals 52 outlined on the ground. No one is sure what that number might signify: 52 prisoners in the camp, perhaps, or that the captives were the crew of one of the B-52s that had been shot down over the region. Because the numerals were first observed after Jan. 20, one theory was that they represented the 52 American hostages released from Iran...
...manically inventive jag to top Viet Nam for wild, lethal ironies and stage effects-"a black looneytune," Writer Michael Herr called it in his Viet Nam masterpiece Dispatches, Indochina became the demented intersection of a bizarrely inventive killer technology (all of those "daisy cutters" and carpet-laying B-52s and mad swarms of choppers and infra-red nightscopes) with a tunnel-digging peasantry in rubber-tire sandals: the amazing, night-dwelling Victor Charlie...
...largest new weapons system in the Reagan defense plan will be the $25 billion program to develop and build a new manned bomber to replace the vintage B-52s. Three and a half years ago, President Carter killed plans for such a plane, when he scrapped the B1, which was being built by Rockwell International. But the company will be back in the bidding for the new bomber with a modified design of the B1, now renamed the LRCA for Long Range Combat Aircraft. The Air Force is also considering a stretched version of the General Dynamics...
...quit formation; its right front-landing gear would not retract, so it could not keep up. Officially, the Air Force has high confidence in these old planes and the young men who fly them. Despite the much vaunted Soviet air defense network, they believe the B-52s can get through, take out their targets, and perhaps even return to base...