http://www.softwar.net/comint9.html WHAT IF THERE IS ANOTHER MONICA? Pentagon - Virginia USAF officials are worried that two more Monica Lewinsky events could empty U.S. missile stocks. However, the USAF made it official - no new cruise missiles will be bought to replace the 90 ALCM AGM-86B missiles fired at Iraq. Instead, the USAF plans to spend $53 million converting 92 of the final inventory of 130 nuclear tipped AGM-86B missiles into conventional weapons. The extra 92 missiles will leave the USAF with about 200 conventional cruise missiles or enough for two more "Desert Fox" like attacks. JUST IN TIME FOR A GORE SCANDAL Pentagon - Virginia The replacement for the USAF AGM-86B is currently being funded. 87 stealthy "JASSM" missiles are scheduled for USAF delivery in 2001 enough for one Monica scale event. SAR PREDATOR OVER IRAQ Kuwait City - Kuwait The USAF has moved synthetic aperture radar (SAR) equipped UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) to the middle east. The SAR equipped Predators are flying reconnaissance missions over Iraq at night and during bad weather. The USAF goal is to track Iraqi mobile air defenses using the advanced, imaging, radar. SAR equipped F-15E Strike Eagles already roam the night skies of Iraq. U.S. Predator SAR radars are reported to be sensitive enough to determine the difference between two calibers of artillery. COSTIND WINS AWARD Beijing - China COSTIND has won a domestic victory over the rival Central Military Command (CMC) of the Chinese Army. The new boys'n green from COSTIND beat out the old soldiers from Central Command, winning the favor of Prime Minister Zhu Rongji. COSTIND has been awarded complete administrative control of Aviation Industries of China (AVIC). AVIC controls 100 large and medium sized businesses, including China's state airlines, 30 research institutes and 7 state funded labs. AVIC employees over 500,000 Chinese aerospace workers and manufactures bombers, fighters, engines, electronics and missiles. Chinese officials claim the move is to remove military ownership of aerospace firms. COSTIND, however, is a Chinese military unit. The new powers for COSTIND makes them the most powerful Chinese Army unit outside the Communist Party State Council. BUSINESS & MARXISM DO MIX AVIC HQ - Beijing China COSTIND has already announced their first western-like business move... A major down-size. COSTIND plans to cut 150,000 jobs over the next 3 years in a communist/corporate restructuring of AVIC. QUOTA SYSTEM Capitol Hill Washington D.C. Lockheed/Martin has more lobbyists on Capitol hill these days than the White House. Lockheed has put big investment in the Russian Proton rocket to launch a number of LM satellites into geosyncronous orbit (GEO). Russia, however, is over-booked as per the U.S. satellite export quotas. Under the restrictions, Russia has 16 GEO launch permits through the year 2000. Russia currently has 9 remaining. LM is covering the Hill like a swarm of ants, hoping to find enough support to lift the quota against Russia GEO launches so they will not loose money backing the Proton. LORAL DEPENDS ON RUSSIAN ROCKETS State Dept. - Washington D.C. Loral has a "GO" from the State Dept. to launch more satellites for GLOBALSTAR on Russian Proton rockets. The Globalstar system of low earth orbit satellites (LEO) are not covered by the GEO satellite export quota. The first Proton launch is scheduled this spring. Loral lost Globalstar 12 satellites in July 1998 on a failed Zenit launch. Loral had to purchase U.S. built DELTA rockets to put replacement Globalstar satellites into orbit because of the satellite export restrictions. The Delta launches have no security restrictions but cost more and are (generally) more reliable than their Russian or Chinese counter-parts. RUSSIAN HERO OF THE STATE REWARDED Baikonur Cosmodrome - Kazakhastan On December 30, 1998, a Russian Proton rocket successfully launched three Glonass navigation satellites into orbit. However, one of the Glonass satellites appeared to fail and communications with the spacecraft was lost. Russian Air Force officer Col. Oleg Bondar devised a way to re-store communications with the lost satellite and saved the spacecraft. Col. Bondar was given an official reward for saving the Glonass satellite... his back pay for 1998. ================================================================ 1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Paul Revere - encryption 1775 Charles R. Smith SOFTWAR http://www.softwar.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pcyphered SIGNATURE: D787F59CF581B011815DCB521B3C3E1F842907A7B8CD4ED3CD5F45C425FF2230 4AE7BC867E7ADCB4FB96006608B7F5334A03C024130EEA7A733D2E2BE5B7C19D 535C8B7AB0367EBD ================================================================ SOFTWAR EMAIL NEWSLETTER 02/10/99 *** to unsubscribe reply with "unsubscribe" as subject *** ================================================================
