Word: antiaircraft
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...dikes are not being "targeted," Administration officials repeated, though they admitted as before that a few bombs have dropped on dikes near military targets. Some reconnaissance photographs, for instance, showed roads atop dikes that were filled with supply convoys; others showed a stretch of dike with three 37-mm. antiaircraft gun emplacements on it. The State Department at first denied Swedish reports that U.S. planes are bombing dikes with delayed-action bombs and then reversed itself...
...their midst." Lebanon-recalling that Israel had attacked Beirut airport in 1968 and destroyed civilian planes in retaliation for a fedayeen assault on an El Al plane-braced itself for Jerusalem's revenge. Its 18,000-man army was alerted, and the airport put under tight guard; antiaircraft guns could be seen swiveling beside the runways...
...smart bombs-those guided by television and those led by laser beams. TV bombs, like the Navy's 3,000-lb. Walleye (so named for the glassy lens in its snout), can be dropped from an altitude of 30,000 ft., far above the reach of most antiaircraft artillery. As the bomb glides toward the target on a free-falling trajectory, the pilot, who monitors the flight on a television receiver, can adjust its course by remote control, or the bomb, having "memorized" the picture of the target with its built-in electronic brain, can aim itself...
WHEN Correspondent Don Neff arrived in Viet Nam for the first time eight years ago, a favorite topic of conversation was the primitive state of Communist equipment. "There was even a story going around," he recalls, "that the V.C. had a new antiaircraft weapon: a catapult that shot ten-foot arrows." Back for his fourth tour of duty last week, Neff loitered over besieged An Loc in a light U.S. reconnaissance plane knowing that the Communists now have sophisticated Soviet antiaircraft guns as well as modern tanks...
...Soviet Union will each be permitted to maintain only two ABM complexes of 100 missiles each. The Soviets, who have chosen to defend populated areas, will probably add new missiles to the 64 ABMS that now ring Moscow. They may also convert the Tallin Line of antiaircraft missiles near Leningrad to ABMS. The U.S., which by contrast has chosen to use the allotted ABMs to protect its land-based missile force, originally had announced its intention to build 14 Safeguard ABM complexes. Now it will complete only the two sites at Grand Forks, N. Dak., and Malmstrom, Mont...