Word: antiaircraft
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...reasons. When two National Guard divisions were federalized during the Berlin buildup-the 49th Armored of Texas and the 32nd Infantry of Wisconsin-McNamara was shocked to find that these supposedly crack units needed nearly five months to reach combat status. He discovered that the Guard had 95 antiaircraft companies armed with old-line 90-mm. guns that were useless against supersonic jet aircraft. And he found that the Guard was loaded down with such excess baggage as laundry companies, bath units, public relations men and special service companies to entertain the troops...
Into Cárdenas came Russian-made T-34 tanks, mortars, four-barreled ZPU-4 Czech antiaircraft guns. Troops in Soviet-style helmets marched grimly past. Overhead thundered three Russian-made MIG jet fighters. Television carried the show to every town in Cuba-along with a warning from the reviewing stand by President Osvaldo Dorticós (Castro did not attend). Denouncing "the wretched counter-revolutionary provocation that took place here," Dorticós spoke in a double negative, but the assembled peasants got the idea. If they "do not allow counter-revolutionary parasites to get away with one single...
...fifth the size of America's G.E.), Thomson-Houston has outstripped all domestic competition in France and is still growing. Today the company's 21 factories turn out 50% of France's telecommunications equipment, 20% of its television sets, produce everything from electric light bulbs to antiaircraft missiles. Thomson's sales have doubled since 1955. Last year they reached $161 million, and gross profits were a healthy $12.5 million...
...taproot of German might." From its oil refineries came one-third of the aviation gasoline, benzine and lubricants that kept Adolf Hitler's military machine running. To protect Ploesti from air at tack, the Germans had made it into a colossal land battleship. A ring of heavy antiaircraft guns formed a perimeter around the refineries that circled the city; lighter flak guns were concealed in hay stacks and groves, mounted on factories, bridges, water towers and church steeples on the target approaches. Crack Luftwaffe squadrons, aided by Rumanian and Bulgarian air force units, gave Ploesti an aerial umbrella...
...important functions is to provide actual training for missile-era airmen and ground troops-something neither Cape Canaveral nor White Sands is equipped to do. Aircraft squadrons fire their air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles over the PMR's vast instrumentation almost every morning. Marine Corps antiaircraft missile battalions set up their Hawk batteries on the offshore islands of Santa Barbara Channel and fire away at the PMR-launched drones. British and Canadian Thor crews get their first actual experience in firing their missiles over the PMR-training they cannot get at home...