Word: antiradar
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...days later, more SAMs were launched from the Talil air base in southern Iraq against British and U.S. warplanes. Both times the pilots under attack jinked their planes in evasive maneuvers, avoiding the missiles. Then Air Force F-16 Falcons and Navy EA-6B Prowlers roared in with HARM antiradar missiles and precision-guided bombs to flatten the batteries...
...approaches is a fairly recent development for the U.S. military. "Every pilot loves to do yanks and banks and dive and drive, but this is dangerous until you have attrited the threat," Navy Secretary John Lehman said last week in an interview with TIME. "You have to hit with antiradar devices. This results in an emphasis on night, low-level attack, which can beat any defense if you do it right...
...Roxbury Latin School and later at Harvard, the eminent educator became chairman of his alma mater's chemistry department before assuming its presidency in 1933. In World War II, as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he bossed a $2 billion research program to develop radar, antiradar, various chemical warfare projects, and nuclear fission. Putting in some 250,000 miles of travel, bounded by Cambridge, Washington and Los Alamos, he deputized for Vannevar Bush, served as consultant for Major General Leslie Groves, was the No. I intermediary for scientists, generals and industrialists who helped fashion the Abomb. Since...
Catalyst with Resilience. Having just weathered the toughest science brushup course of all time, Teacher Conant should be in good form. As chairman of the National Defense Research Committee he exercised absolute dictatorial powers over men and materials in its $2 billion wartime research program, developing radar, antiradar, various new chemical warfare wrinkles-and nuclear fission. Conant's job was as an organizer, moderator and catalyst, but he would have failed if he had not been a topnotch scientist...
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