We must give greater bite to the global watchdogs responsible for detecting hidden weapon systems and programs.
In the future we will find ourselves outsourcing the production of our weapon systems to contractors in foreign nations.
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And a succession of needed replacements for obsolescing weapon systems will remain right where they are: on the drawing boards.
It can be reconfigured for each mission by adding or removing modules such as weapon systems, sensors, helicopters and drones.
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For instance, we have very old and, in some cases, actually obsolescent weapon systems - armored vehicles, ships, aircraft, missiles and nuclear weapons.
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The law stipulates that these tests can only be conducted for certain purposes, namely, to improve the safety of certain deployed nuclear weapon systems.
Just last month, the Defense Department reported on the critical role played by this and other semiconductor technologies in present and future weapon systems.
The defense acquisition process in itself is notoriously burdensome and costly, often driving the costs and time to deployment of weapon systems up exponentially.
For a brief period after the Gulf War, the legions of defense critics who have long maintained that U.S. weapon systems would not work were shamed into silence.
This is particularly true if, as has been reported in the press, the Administration is actively engaged in negotiations with the Russians aimed at producing limitations on anti-satellite weapon systems.
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As I crossed through the wire at the lead of the convoy, I called my departure report to Squadron Operations Center and told my detachment to lock and load their weapon systems.
We have this incredibly powerful alliance that is multidimensional and involves a whole range of coordination, training activities, making sure that there's interoperability with respect to various weapon systems and our defensive capabilities.
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The Defense Department lays itself open unnecessarily to criticism of duplication in its airborne elements to the extent it fails to exploit opportunities for "joint" or multi-service approaches to procurement of aircraft and other weapon systems.
While doing so would require not only the establishment of a significant industrial base but also the departure from long-standing Japanese policies against the export of weapon systems to countries other than the United States, such developments cannot be ruled out.
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Andrew Krepinevich, a radical defence analyst whose thinking has been endorsed, in part, by Mr Rumsfeld, cites several weapon systems which deserve higher priority: long-range bombers, missiles and unmanned aircraft, ships designed for coastal warfare, and submarines which can fire cruise missiles.
Accordingly, the United States has sought in SALT I and II and now in the START talks to ensure that penetrating bombers were either unconstrained or limited in such a way as to encourage retention of such weapon systems over ballistic missiles.
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Toward this end, he would like to subject this priority effort to the same unbelievably sclerotic bureaucratic arrangements -- featuring numerous, ponderous program reviews known as "milestones" -- that typically keep new weapon systems from coming on line in less than twelve-to-fifteen years.
The Cornwall carries a 4.5 inch MK8 gun, Goal Keeper CIWS close in weapon systems, Sea Wolf anti-missile system, Harpoon missile launchers, two 20mm close range guns, Lynx MK8 helicopter armament, anti-ship missiles, and one of the most sophisticated command and control communications systems on water.
Even the relatively tangible repercussions -- such as the loss of indigenous industrial capability and the attendant, increased reliance on foreign suppliers for components of key weapon systems -- are typically dismissed, or at least subordinated to the perceived greater good of developing globalized relationships with trading partners.
While some of these weapon and sensor systems like the Electromagnetic Railgun or the Free Electron Laser are at least a decade away, the Laser Weapon System and Air and Missile Defense Radar systems are almost ready for prime time deployment today.
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Restricting the definition...could make an agreement easier to verify, but ineffective in achieving its purpose of protecting satellites....Furthermore, problems of weapon definition are compounded because some non-weapon space systems, including civil and commercial systems, could have characteristics which would make it difficult to frame a definition to distinguish them.
Determined to give effect to its unmet 31 July demand that Iran suspend all uranium enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, the Security Council today imposed sanctions on that country, blocking the import or export of sensitive nuclear materiel and equipment and freezing the financial assets of persons or entities supporting its proliferation sensitive nuclear activities or the development of nuclear-weapon delivery systems.
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