Rickover cites Soviet Trident twin and Bangor base plan
In testimony Rickover says the Soviet Union is building a submarine capable of firing 12 missiles to targets 4,000 miles away, a variant of the U S Trident. He notes the U S program would use ten Tridents with 24 missiles each, costs at $12.7 billion, and could keep missiles in Bangor Washington while reaching distant targets beyond 2,500 miles.
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Hyman Rickover
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Rickover
House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
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Poseidon
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Costs rise on two experimental high speed Navy ships
Rep. Les Aspin said costs for two 100-ton high speed air cushion ships have climbed by at least 69 million dollars due to overruns and technical problems. He noted repeated engine failures and electrical and propulsion defects, with total prototype program costs growing from 210 million to about 500 million. The Navy plans to test 2,200-ton air cushion vessels next, built by Aerojet and Bell Industries.
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Les Aspin
Aspin
Wisconsin Democrat
Navy
Pan Am Wins 24 Million in Arab Jet Blast Case
Federal Judge Marvin Frankel ruled that Pan American World Airways is entitled to roughly 24.3 million dollars from 80 American and British insurers for a Boeing 747 destroyed by an Arab terror group in Gabvo on September 7, 1970. The decision classifies the act as terrorism rather than conventional warfare, upholding the insurers’ coverage under a joint Lloyds policy.
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Nyts
Marvin Frankel
Pan American World Airways
Gabvo
Middle East
Frankel
Lloyd's of London
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