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...Volex" radars and linking them together with new underground fiber-optic cables. That would give the dishes much sharper eyes in the sky and antiaircraft shooters a faster bead on their targets. Pilots on no-fly patrol have lately noticed newly aggressive Iraqi tactics in picking up their aircraft, and they have complained that some surface-to-air missile operator might soon earn the $14,000 reward Saddam has offered for shooting down a U.S. plane. Because 4 out of 5 radars lay above the 33rd parallel that marks the edge of the southern no-fly zone, they...
...customer complaints and a congressional threat to impose a passenger bill of rights, the major U.S. carriers made 12 specific commitments aimed at making air travel better. Among them: notifying passengers in a timely manner of delays, cancellations or diversions; and meeting customers' essential needs during long on-aircraft delays. Last week the Department of Transportation's Inspector General reported that the airlines had failed to fulfill many of the pledges. Among other things the report concluded that the airlines frequently gave "inaccurate, incomplete or unreliable" information and often failed to offer the lowest possible fare; and that fewer than...
...Volex" radars and linking them together with new underground fiber-optic cables. That would give the dishes much sharper eyes in the sky and antiaircraft shooters a faster bead on their targets. Pilots on no-fly patrol have lately noticed newly aggressive Iraqi tactics in picking up their aircraft, and they have complained that some surface-to-air missile operator might soon earn the $14,000 reward Saddam has offered for shooting down a U.S. plane. Because four out of five radars lay above the 33rd parallel that marks the edge of the southern no-fly zone, they...
...skipping a generation. That would be improving on the existing generation of combat aircraft. What would be skipping a generation would be to say we don't need a man in that cockpit, and instead develop a drone operated by a sergeant hundreds of miles away on land with some of the same capability as the F-22. A true next generation of weapons would break with some longstanding traditions, such as the idea that there has to be someone in the cockpit of a fighter plane. The F-22 is so capital-intensive that no other country can play...
...course a new generation of weapons will have to be based on the existing infrastructure. You can't simply revolutionize the military across the board. So with aircraft, for example, they're talking about the first unmanned planes being those that would be used against enemy radar, which is usually the first wave of an air campaign. The job is well-suited to an unmanned craft, because it diminishes the risk in a simple air-to-ground mission where the target's location is known...