Word: antiaircraft
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...bombers roared in low on a sunny afternoon. Unopposed by antiaircraft fire or fighter defenses, they pounded away for almost 3½ hours, Heinkel-111s in the lead, followed by ponderous Junkers-52 trimotors. As fighter planes wove in and out, strafing people on the ground, the bombers unloaded some 100,000 lbs. of high-explosive, fragmentation and incendiary bombs on a small Basque town in the green hills of northern Spain. When the bombers left, a town had been smashed to rubble, but a symbol was born-still evoked for many by Pablo Picasso's best-known...
...attack. Both cheap and mobile, cruises can be deployed in such massive numbers across the U.S., in planes and at sea that it would be impossible for the Soviets to destroy them all. The surviving cruises would then be able to counterattack the Soviet Union. The number of Russian antiaircraft weapons required to shoot the incoming cruises out of the sky would bust the Kremlin's military budget. No wonder the Pentagon is so fond of the drone...
...bombed-out wing of Bach Mai hospital has been left in ruins as a memorial to victims of the 1972 Christmas bombing. But there are few such deliberate reminders of the war, either in the landscape or in conversation. Posters celebrating the accuracy of rooftop antiaircraft gunners have been replaced by ones exhorting greater industrial and agricultural production. In the city's teeming central market (where dog meat is sold as a delicacy), a loudspeaker system installed ten years ago for air raid alerts and tirades against the "imperialist" enemy is now used to announce the arrival of produce...
...Currie got six-figure job offers from three aerospace companies. He decided to go to Culver City, Calif., as a $180,000-a-year vice president in charge of Hughes Aircraft's guided-missiles projects. They include a $150 million contract to adapt the French-West German Roland antiaircraft missile for use by U.S. forces, that was awarded while Currie was in the Pentagon...
American-made F-4 Phantoms, which can easily handle the Su-22s and are eagerly sought by Chile's air force, are barred by the embargo. Chilean commanders also feel that they desperately need better tanks and more antitank and antiaircraft missiles. While Santiago has been able to make some purchases from private arms traders, the weapons acquired have been relatively unsophisticated and expensive. Moans a senior military analyst in Santiago: "Chile gets less for more...