Word: antiaircraft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tons of captured ammunition is a huge haul. Yet two-thirds of it is .51-cal. ammunition used for antiaircraft purposes; the small-arms ammunition used by the average paddyfield-variety Viet Cong totals only 75 tons...
...Viet Cong sanctuaries in Cambodia suddenly became an intolerable threat to a reduced American presence in Viet Nam remains a mystery. How the destruction of antiaircraft installations in North Viet Nam will ensure the safety of departing U.S. troops is clearly open to critical debate. What is to be gained from a sixto eight-week "defensive" probe across the Cambodian border is at best fuzzy speculation, and miserably incapable of justifying the immediate cost in American lives and the potential costs of an Indochina...
...more than 20 years, Trombe has championed solar furnaces as an ideal source of intensive heat for both industrial uses and scientific experimentation. In 1946 he fashioned his first sun stove out of a captured German antiaircraft searchlight mirror at an observatory near Paris. Moving to the old Pyrenean citadel town of Mont-Louis, where the sun shines as many as 200 days a year, he has since built five larger solar furnaces. Now, in masterly style, he has created his piéce de résistance on a hillside in the nearby ski resort of Odeillo. Compared with...
...surprise. "Sure, the Communists had some knowledge that we were planning a big move," said one U.S. military source. "But they never expected an air assault-never anticipated the choppers coming in on them." The pincer attack was so swift that the enemy never did get its .51-cal. antiaircraft batteries in firing position. In the first hours of the assault, one ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) airborne unit set down right on top of a North Vietnamese regimental base area. The North Vietnamese were so flabbergasted that they put up only token resistance and withdrew hastily...
...banks of the Nile danced over the dark waters. Obviously, the Egyptians no longer felt nearly so apprehensive about the possibility of Israeli air raids. The reason? During the past month, the Russians who now help man Egypt's defense have not only set up new SA3 antiaircraft missiles to protect Egyptian cities, but have also begun to fly Egyptian-marked MIG-21s over Egyptian territory to defend those sites from Israeli intruders...