May 6, 1991

May 6, 1991

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Naval Aviation Plan Sacrifices Some Capability to Avoid Further Cuts in Aircraft Carriers

By JOHN D. MORROCCO6 min

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Grumman Makes 11th-hour Offer to Get F-14 Into Fiscal ’92 Budget

By STANLEY W. KANDEBO4 min

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Aerospatiale/mbb Team Begins Flight Testing Tiger Attack Helicopter

By JEFFREY M. LENOROVITZ4 min

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Naval Aviation Plan Sacrifices Some Capability to Avoid Further Cuts in Aircraft Carriers

WASHINGTON The Pentagon’s amended budget submission for Fiscal 1992-93 includes a revised naval aviation plan that would sacrifice some capability in order to avoid further reductions in the number of aircraft carriers. The plan calls for rewinging another 60 A-6E Intruder attack aircraft and procuring 210 additional F/A-18C/D aircraft by Fiscal 1997, 18 fewer than the service had initially recommended to Defense Secretary Richard B. Cheney (AW&ST Mar. 25, p. 24).

By JOHN D. MORROCCO6 min

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Grumman Makes 11th-hour Offer to Get F-14 Into Fiscal ’92 Budget

NEW YORK Grumman Chairman Renso Caporali has offered the Defense Dept, longterm price guarantees on F-14Ds and F14 derivatives and has asked for a face-toface meeting with Defense Secretary Richard B. Cheney. The move signals the beginning of the latest fight by F-14 proponents to get the aircraft into the Fiscal 1992 budget.

By STANLEY W. KANDEBO4 min

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Aerospatiale/mbb Team Begins Flight Testing Tiger Attack Helicopter

By JEFFREY M. LENOROVITZ4 min

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F-117 Pilots, Generals Tell Congress About Stealth’s Value in Gulf War

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Usaf Developed 4,700-lb. Bomb in Crash Program to Attack Iraqi Military Leaders in Hardened Bunkers

WASHINGTON In a crash program, the U. S. Air Force developed and used a new penetrating bomb late in the gulf war in an effort to destroy extremely hardened, deeply buried Iraqi command and control bunkers, kill senior military officials and possibly President Saddam Hussein.

By JOHN D. MORROCCO,DAVID A. FULGHUM4 min

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House Approves Nasa Funding Bill But Requires Study of Redesigned Station

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Soviets Conduct Mir Eva; Set to Launch British Woman

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Soviet Space Programs Bid for Funding in Weak Economy

By JAMES R. ASKER2 min

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Gao Says Initial Tests Confirm B-2’s Ability to Evade Radar

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Special, Wide-field Star Tracker Orients Latest Brilliant Pebbles Test Vehicle

WASHINGTON The most recent Brilliant Pebbles suborbital flight test relied on a special wide-field-of-view star tracker to orient the experimental SDI spacecraft. This image, which has not previously been released publicly, shows a star tracker view from an altitude of about 100 mi. over the Atlantic Ocean looking north and including portions of New York and Connecticut (lower right).
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