Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Force wants more transport aircraft, but has not yet decided how many. Also needed are additional tankers for airborne refueling of transport and combat planes. In fiscal 1980 the Air Force will be buying four KC-10 tankers, a version of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jetliner, at a total cost of $200 million...
...signs of the growing power and diversity of the Soviet armed forces are more striking than the U.S.S.R.'s development of aircraft carriers. Though the Soviets built two helicopter-carrying warships in the 1960s, it was not until 1976 that they produced their first true carrier, the 38,000-ton Kiev. Last February came her sister ship, the Minsk, and two more of the same class are being built...
...aircraft can determine the combat capability of the Soviet brigade on the island, it is the SR-71-the fastest, highest-flying and most elusive manned aircraft in existence. So fast does the sophisticated spy plane move that when a pilot starts a 180° turn over Cuba, he completes it halfway to Bermuda. By emitting ECM, or electronic countermeasure radio frequency signals, the Blackbird can efface its image from watching radar screens...
...which we had had next to no contact for two decades would obtain some significant assistance-the precise nature to be worked out when the circumstances arose. To provide some military means to give effect to our strategy and to reinforce the message to Moscow, Nixon now ordered an aircraft carrier task force that had been alerted earlier to proceed through the Strait of Malacca and into the Bay of Bengal...
...latest Soviet flotilla reached Cienfuegos on Sept. 9. Daily U-2 reconnaissance flights were ordered, and the Cuban reaction to them showed that something unusual was afoot. MiG fighters scrambled after our first flight. A U.S. Navy antisubmarine aircraft was shadowed for 60 miles while a MiG made several strafing passes. I was sufficiently concerned to warn the Soviet Union publicly on Sept. 16 that operating missile-carrying submarines or nuclear weapons from Cuba or servicing them from there would have grave consequences. Since we did not yet have any concrete evidence, I stopped just short of making a direct...