Department of Defense Appropriations for 1979: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 |
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active additional air defense aircraft airlift allies appropriate arms Army attack AWACS ballistic missile billion bomber capability carrier CHAPPELL Chart combat Congress continue conventional cost cruise missile DEFENSE BUDGET Department of Defense deployed deployment deterrence dollars effective efforts equipment estimate Europe fleet funds FY 1979 budget helicopter ICBM improve increase initial launchers maintain major Marine Corps ment military MINUTEMAN MINUTEMAN III MIRVed mission mobility modernization NATO naval Navy nuclear forces nuclear weapons operational outlays percent personnel procurement projected proposed QUESTION radar readiness reduce request reserve SALT II Secretary BROWN Secretary of Defense ships SIKES SLBM Soviet Union squadrons strategic forces strategic nuclear submarine tanks targets theater nuclear theater nuclear forces threat tion TRIDENT United unobligated balances USSR V/STOL WACKER warfare warheads Warsaw Pact weapon systems
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Page 367 - The United States will not be the first supplier to introduce into a region newly-developed, advanced weapons systems which would create a new or significantly higher combat capability.
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Page 367 - We will continue to utilize arms transfers to promote our security and the security of our close friends. But in the future the burden of persuasion will be on those who favor a particular arms sale, rather than those who oppose it.
Page 393 - The space segment now consists of three DSCS II satellites, located over the Atlantic, Western Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Coverage over the Eastern Pacific is being provided temporarily by the NATO IIIB satellite. The demand for DSCS capacity, area coverage, and reliability has established the need for a six satellite space segment of four active satellites and two in-orbit spares. The present plan is to launch two satellites in 1978. To maintain this system until follow-on DSCS satellites are available,...
Page 368 - States can, and should, take the first step. However, in the immediate future, the United States will meet with other arms suppliers, including the Soviet Union, to begin discussions of possible measures for multilateral action. In addition, we will do whatever we can to encourage regional agreements among purchasers to limit arms imports.
Page 789 - ... of the North Atlantic sea lanes to Europe, but would suffer serious losses to both US and allied shipping in the early stages. The Navy's ability to operate in the eastern Mediterranean would be uncertain at best. If Pacific Fleet assets were to be shifted to the European...