European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday. April 29. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 Pentagon s nato report alarms senator a Shin Citon api the sin id Union Anil its allies have a substantial greater capability 10 win a War in pure pc than nato according 10 a Pentagon which one senator said wednesday raises a new gaming Flag " there 11 an imbalance in conventional weapon in Europe Anil there s absolutely in doubt about it said sen. Dan que Jalc. A and. This is something that we re going in have to consider As we debate the incr inc dial Range nuclear forces treaty Nel month Quayle based Bis comments on portions or the an Nual Pentagon publication. Soviet not stary Power which will tic formally made Public Friday by the de sense department. Some Union of the report have already been sent to Capitol Hill including Ilie part which re Siats ear Lier com Monts by Pentagon officials. Those officials As part of the Senate hearings on the inf pact have warned that the North Atlantic treaty Organ i action needs to spend More Money on non nuclear weapons. The assessment in soviet military Power released by Quayle said inc Warsaw pad has improved in a number of areas and now has growing leads Over nato in a variety of weapons including numbers of tanks and artillery. The conclusion of the inf treaty a heightened comparing conventional arms soviet tank a tit air 1orcw capacity in eurom m Moons of ton Matt a Oheim bad Capetty Mann Al it Tad i ton my Reg Armor do icons in numb of wow m combat Hung cd ago try � in h but by a off the inf treaty will require both nations to eliminate All missiles with a Range of 3uu to 3,400 Miles. The Senate is expected to consider it next month and when it finally votes ratification is Likely since leaders of hath parties Sny 90 or More senators Are expected to ice for it. Ratification requires the approval of 67 of the 10 1 senators. The assessment also warned that although Lite so Viet Union is narrowing the techno logical Gap the United slates and its allies maintain the technological Lead this Lead will continue to diminish however unless the . Maintains Strong safeguards against the soviets sophisticated efforts to acquire technology the report forecast. The United slates still has advantages in a Numier of technological areas the report noted including Bio chemical technology computing capability some areas of directed Energy and electronic materials and Inte Gracid circuit manufacturing. While the West leads in a number of research areas " he soviets arc methodically and efficiently transitioning new technologies into their vast Arsenal oftentimes More rapidly than the West the report said the soviets already hold quantitative advantages. And arc now seeking better weapon system Quality. Consequently the comparative technological level of deployed soviet systems is gradually improving. This situation is the result of their forced application of technology in Shorter development cycles than Ore Typ ical in the 11 also notes that the soviets May soon begin limited operational deployment of some stealth techno Logies the term used by the air Force to describe a new generation of planes which Are designed to he virtually invisible to radars. The air Force has said that ils new stealth bomber will begin testing in he fall and there have been reports never formally confirmed by the service that inc air Force is also building a stealth fighter. Space Sfax on gets she a to fend off exploding junk Washington api satellites and spent a octets arc exploding unaccountably in orbit littering space with dangerous chunks of shrapnel and facing designers to add Lorn of shielding to protect inc pro posed . Space Slat Ion and ils Crew. More than 90 Hillel lies 0 Date have blown up or broken up for unknown Rea sons and the shards represent More than half of the 7. We pieces of space debts cinc tracked by the . Space corny. Said Don Kessler. Project scientist for de Bris studies at Nasa s Johnson space Center. These Ca millions have occurred every where. From one a after launch la three Kowler said in a Telephone inter View. They an like a Lime bomb waiting ". Me said he doubts the cause is collisions with meteoroids or the testing of secret anti satellite weapons. Space station planners Are faced with a considerable design he said and Are adding 2,000 pounds to the shield ing of each of i he six modules occupied by astronauts. The debris gets most severe at 500-600 Kessler said but usually unmanned spacecraft Are at that Altitude and Don t require the same level of safely As a the space shuttle generally oper ates at altitudes of i so to 300 Miles. When i first started working in this area very few people knew How their spacecraft were breaking up including the designers Kessler said. The space com Mand knew they were breaking up hut never took the time to identify Why the explosions of satellites or rockets often Aren t detected for a year or More after they occur Kessler said. He said officials have Long believed that French made Arian rockets explode in space bul icy Are in orbits difficult to track with ground radar. Bul. He said in 1986 icy launched into an orbit that s easily detected and it blew up after nine the frag ments of that explosion probably caused by of gases number "150. 3 rockets fall 11,000 feet from guard plane in Illinois Peoria Iii. A three Dummy rockets fell Uff a National guard Jet at 11.000 Fot Landing without injury on stale property officials Aid wednesday. The rockets which arc used for prac Tice have Lead warheads and contain no explosives sail officials of the is2nd tactical air support group. A 6-foot. 1110-Pound pod containing the rockets fell off the a-37 dragonfly shortly after Takeoff saturday and landed cast of Trimont a Small town Aboul 15 Miles Southeast of Peona it. Col. John Bidiman did . The cause of the acid Cal is under m Vest ignition. Said maj. Sandy Cam Dep Uty group commander. The Ped Anil rockets could have caused serious injury or death if they had fallen in a residential area said Cain. The pod is a Cylinder that hangs on the Wing of the plane the rockets Art fired from the pod. The Accident a is Rcpt cd by the Pilot and a private citizen said Cam we were very fortunate we found in right away he said. A could easily have fallen into a Ravine and we never would have found photo stirs interest link an 18-Monlh-old boy found i month agn hindering the a tree in last Lind fat ills on it Lap or sule so ii worker Giren Mck Wulc during l Nens conf treat. 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