Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second function, the interception and destruction of the attackers. Some 600 miles south of the Arctic DEW line, -the mid-Canada line's double fence of warning stations would pick up the invaders, plotting information on course for their interception in the air north of settled areas. Aircraft control and warning stations of the Pinetree system along both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border would be brought into action, pinpointing the targets in the sky with their radar, and directing their destruction by antiaircraft fire, guided missiles or interceptor planes, now in the process of being armed with nuclear...
...watching luminescent oscilloscopes in darkened rooms. Without the ability to intercept or even to defend themselves (an attack on them would in itself constitute a warning, and thus fulfill the DEW line's purpose), they have a single mission: to detect penetration of the radar fence by unidentified aircraft...
Command, by SAC's own forward installations in Greenland and Iceland, and by AC&W (aircraft control and warning) stations along the northeastern Canadian coast...
Helping to speed interception are newly developed SAGE (SemiAutomatic Ground Environment) system units, now being installed at direction centers of Air Divisions into which Canada and the U.S. are divided for defensive action. Into SAGE computers will be fed information about aircraft anywhere within the Air Division's radar area. This information will instantaneously be translated into symbols on TV-like picture tubes, showing current air situations, and automatically calculating correct employment of defense weapons...
...Walter R. Dornberger, 62, former German general and one of Germany's leading rocket engineers before and during World War II, was named technical assistant to President Leston Faneuf of Bell Aircraft Corp. Dornberger directed V-1 and rocket-powered V-2 missiles at Peenemunde, Germany's big rocket-research center, where he bossed Wernher von Braun, a top U.S. Army missile expert. Dornberger later developed Bell's Rascal, air-to-surface guided missile how used by the Strategic Air Command...