Word: antiaircraft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Defense, he himself received bogus Russian military secrets, Pentagon sources told Time. By then the CIA had finally begun to attach caveats to the reports that contained information from the double agents, but the labels were sometimes omitted or ignored by the customer. One such report on Russian antiaircraft capabilities, which made its way to the Pentagon in 1993, clearly warned that the CIA was suspicious about the veracity of its source. But Air Force officials, who considered the report valuable in bolstering support for their $73 billion F-22 Stealth-fighter program, edited out the warning when they sent...
...Bosnian Serbs' air defenses are supported by staff and equipment in Belgrade with Milosevic's approval. The officials also say this network is so sophisticated that the Bosnian Serbs probably knew which American pilots were flying when they shot down O'Grady on June 2. The Bosnian Serb antiaircraft batteries, whose communications U.S. intelligence has been monitoring, may have intentionally targeted O'Grady and his wingman, Captain Bob Wright, because the two had taken part in NATO air attacks on Bosnian Serb military targets. "They knew who Basher 51 and Basher 52 were," says a Pentagon official, referring...
...joined in the attack. NATO fighter-bombers roared across the Adriatic from Italy to bomb the base, punching a few craters into the concrete runways, but carefully avoiding Serbian planes or soldiers. Two days later, when the Serbs failed to get the message, NATO planes hit two of their antiaircraft installations in Bosnia with missiles...
Bosnian Serbs fired on Muslims with an antiaircraft gun seized from a U.N. facility. The Serbs were responding to an earlier machine-gun attack by the Bosnian government. Both the Muslims and the Serbs have been giving signs of preparing for a land grab, gathering soldiers north of Sarajevo. Still, says TIME Central Europe Bureau Chief James Graff, "no one thinks that offenses of strategic importance are in the offing right now even though there may be a kilometer won here and a kilometer lost there...
...strikes on Pyongyang might prove trickier. North Korean facilities are heavily defended by antiaircraft guns and long-range SA-5 missiles, with many of those deeply dug into the ground. The most urgent job for aerial forces would be to blunt the North's offensive with antiarmor smart bombs and cluster bombs. Southern airfields have strengthened their defenses, and the arrival of Patriot missiles should help fend off lethal Scuds...