Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...November 12, it would therefore appear that the rate of infiltration was not as high as it had been in 1970. And yet, on November 17 the French paper Le Monde reported that five U.S. aircraft carriers were cruising along the Vietnamese coast and that there was a great deal of activity at U.S. air bases in Thailand. Le Figaro of the same day reported that the North Vietnamese were strengthening their air defenses in the event of attacks...
...South Vietnamese army is depending on U.S. air power to play a major part in defending Hue. For the first time in the war, five U.S. aircraft carriers are operating off the coast...
...Petersen climbed the narrow steps up to the flight deck, where his copilot, First Lieut. Joseph Czarkovski, had already started the preflight checkout of the plane's complex systems. Unlike air crews in World War 11 or Korea, who got to know all the foibles of their particular aircraft, Petersen and his men are not assigned to one plane. It was their first flight in 6623, and they might never fly her again. The crew had been together only since mid-January, and Petersen was substituted at the last moment for the regular aircraft commander, who had developed back...
...enemy" with infrared sensors, which respond to the warmth of their bodies, and with "people sniffers," which detect the ammonia in human perspiration. Without the terrain-following radar, the planes would risk flying into a mountainside, for they fly without lights to avoid providing a target for anti-aircraft fire. The A-armed with these devices, "makes ground movement after dark a nightmare," the plane's manufacturer boasts...
MITRE, Sanders Associates, and Helio Aircraft are located right out in Bedford. Sanders makes both "defensive" and offensive radar to keep us on the offensive in Indochina. "Sanders continues as a leading supplier in (the) field (of electronic warfare systems) where, almost uniquely, advanced technology provides the margin of defense supremacy...," the company's Annual Report for 1971 is proud...