Word: antiaircraft
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...pristine, sun-blanched wasteland; today it is a frenetic modern port that rivals Charleston's in size. There, last week, building supplies, ammunition and barrels of fuel were stacked endlessly on the beaches near rows of new ware houses and barracks. On a flattened hilltop, antiaircraft Hawk missiles stood at the ready. Nearby, giant C-130 cargo planes and F-4 Phantom jet fighters returning from combat taxied down on a new 10,000-ft. runway. "When we landed last June," said Colonel William F. Hart of the 35th Engineers Group, "there was one pier here and that...
...Only minutes later, on target-a highway-ferry complex at Thanh Hoa-were Air Force F-105s, and another Air Force wing was soon battering a cluster of barges with 20-mm. cannon. The first day's bombing took a toll of three U.S. planes shot down by antiaircraft fire-one measure of the use to which Hanoi had put the pause...
...fighter. The company also garnered development awards to convert it into a spy plane and a bomber to replace the Strategic Air Command's B-52. Though its Convair division in San Diego still limps, G.D. has a near-record backlog of nuclear-submarine orders, is busy producing antiaircraft and ship-to-air missiles...
...bomber pilots over the North will face greater hazards then ever as a result of the pause. Around key targets, said one officer, antiaircraft installations have been increased "to the point of saturation." Some 65 Soviet SAM sites (v. 30 or so pre-pause) are in place in the Hanoi-Haiphong area alone, half of them manned by Russian crews and many equipped with sophisticated new radar systems. MIG-21s have been spotted on airstrips in the North. In the South, there was evidence that the Viet Cong guerrillas might be equipped for the first time with...
Johnson dispatched Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to Capitol Hill to explain the Pentagon's plans for spending the money. Some $3.2 billion would go to buy 2,000 more helicopters, 900 airplanes and nearly 5,000 missiles of the antiaircraft and air-to-ground variety; another $1.6 billion would help support an additional 113,000 military men and 94,000 more Defense Department civilians to back them...