Word: bomber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AWACS can, in any weather, track all aircraft and naval vessels (though not trucks or tanks) within 250 miles. A Sentry can stay aloft, at 30,000 ft., for eleven hours-and twice as long with mid-air refueling. As an all-seeing airborne base from which fighter and bomber strikes can be orchestrated, the AWACS has revolutionized aerial combat...
...parties are jousting with the White House over the price tags on the new F-16 and F-18 fighter planes and the advantages of ground vs. ship-launched cruise missiles. Battle lines are already being drawn for upcoming debates over the MX missile and a new B-l bomber. Even the Administration's proposal to reactivate two mothballed warships, including the World War II battleship New Jersey, has run into strong Senate opposition. Critics contend the ships simply are not worth the salvage cost...
Southern Lebanon. The region south of the Litani River has traditionally been used by Palestinian guerrillas as a staging area for attacks against northern Israel. Israel, in turn, has thrown its support to Haddad's 2,000-man militia and backed it up with deadly bomber attacks. The United Nations 6,000-man peacekeeping force (UNIFIL), dispatched in 1978 to act as a buffer, has often been caught in the bloodletting. Last week UNIFIL Commander Major General William Callaghan met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Yasser Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
American and Soviet strategic nuclear warheads are based in markedly different ways: 75 per cent of the 20,000 Soviet nuclear warheads are land-based, with the remaining strategic forces submarine- or bomber-based, while the U.S. has only 24 per cent of its 30,000 warheads in land-based missiles, with the remainder submarine- or air-based. Since land-based targets become particularly vulnerable as missiles become more accurate, U.S. weapons place 75 per cent of the Soviet strategic force at risk, while Soviet weapons jeopardize only 24 per cent of the American force. When one considers how Soviet...
DIED. Joe Louis, 66, the legendary "Brown Bomber" who held the World Heavyweight boxing championship for nearly twelve years; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas (see SPORT...