Word: antiaircraft
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...after helplessly enduring bombardments of hail for centuries, man is effectively mounting a counterbarrage of his own. In an 88-page report recently translated into English at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., Russian scientists say that they can suppress hail over large areas by firing antiaircraft shells into hail-producing clouds...
...French garrison was 76 min. by air from its supply sources, isolated in a narrow valley over 200 miles from the French stronghold at Hanoi. The French were hemmed in and, after the 56-day Viet Minh siege began, had to be resupplied by parachute drops through dense antiaircraft fire. Con Thien can be resupplied within six minutes by helicopter from Dong Ha, ten miles to the southeast, or by land from Cam Lo, seven miles to the south, when the road is not washed out. The French conceived of Dienbienphu as "the cork in the bottle," designed to stop...
...seems very reasonable to conclude that if we had entered the Viet "Jam war to win [Sept. 8], bombing Haiphong, the dams, bridges, plants and power houses right at the start, instead of waiting till they had assembled the most powerful combination of antiaircraft weapons yet seen, our losses of men and material would have been reduced and the war shortened. A war asininely fought is half lost. Our substitute for a quick victory has pleased no one except the Viet Cong...
...leaving them exposed to U.S. planes (see THE WORLD). Last week's strikes at Haiphong and Cam Pha, the North's first and third biggest ports, signaled a shift to the next step-isolating the ports by blasting roads, marshaling yards and rail sidings around dock areas. > Antiaircraft and SAM-missile fire from the ground has fallen off dramatically in some areas, thanks largely to shortages of shells and missiles. This has been reflected by a decline in the ratio of U.S. planes lost to sorties flown. Further, there has been a drop in the number of bomb...
...target system." Now, U.S. flyers seek to make a whole series of cuts in roads and rail lines in a steady round of attacks, thus trapping trains and truck convoys between the cuts and making them easy targets. Pilots have noticed in recent weeks that fire from antiaircraft batteries and SAM missile sites has fallen off considerably in some areas; they believe that the reason may be that it is getting increasingly harder to supply the sites with ammunition...