Word: antiaircraft
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...Accords were signed more than two years ago. South Vietnamese pilots flew sortie after sortie, and claimed to have knocked out 46 tanks and dozens of artillery pieces on the city's main streets-accidentally killing Province Commander Luat in the process. Troop-carrying helicopters flew through withering antiaircraft fire and successfully landed ARVN reinforcements east of the city. Each side was estimated to have between 6,000 and 7,000 troops within the embattled city...
...together they export about $75 million in arms annually. The Swedes specialize in sophisticated electronic equipment and fighter planes; Saab's Draken is flown by the Danish and Finnish air forces, and the firm hopes to find NATO customers for its new Mach 2 Viggen. Switzerland's specialties are antiaircraft weapons, which it has sold in quantities to West Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands...
...frigates and submarines from West Germany and Britain, Mirage fighter-bombers and howitzers from France and jet trainers from Italy. Peru last year startled its neighbors and Washington by turning to Moscow for arms costing about $85 million?some 600 T-54 and T-55 tanks, plus artillery and antiaircraft guns and missiles...
...quick-reference international airlines timetable. They range from self-effacing defense ministry bureaucrats and eager military attaches earning regulation civil service salaries to the aggressive representatives of the private manufacturing companies, whose salaries and bonuses often reach six figures. One retired U.S. Army officer who brokered the sale of antiaircraft missiles to a Latin American regime is believed to have collected a commission of more than $4 million...
ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES (ECM): Although the electronic "bubbles" that surrounded U.S. bombers and fighter-bombers over North Viet Nam gave them a high degree of protection against missiles and antiaircraft fire, the Soviets may learn to pierce the bubbles. The U.S. answer: new ECM techniques that can fool enemy radar into "seeing" a plane in the sky some distance away from where it actually is. Still largely cloaked in secrecy, the technology depends on mimicry and deception. Once a plane's instruments sense that radar signals are bouncing off it, they identify the type of pulses, memorize them and then...