Word: infra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lighting. The Army is experimenting with laser television for secret nighttime surveillance from aircraft, and military planners are developing bomb warheads that seek out targets illuminated by invisible infra-red laser beams. Peeling Potatoes. The various laser wave lengths, about 1,000 times shorter than those of the microwaves used in conventional radar, make laser altimeters, range finders and aerial mappers remarkably accurate. In a demonstration of a laser distance-measuring device, Spectra-Physics, Inc. flew the instrument over a Philadelphia high school stadium at an altitude of 1,000 ft. A conventional radar altimeter would have indicated only...
Suspicious Ladder. Each Phantom carries anywhere from three to nine cameras, including infra-red equipment, as well as side-looking radar, all linked to the aircraft's navigational gear in order to record precise locations-and trip the camera shutters at just the right millisecond. On return to Udorn, automatic machines swiftly process the film in trailers set up beside the runway, and highly skilled (and suspicious) photo interpreters, or PIs, scan it for hours, looking for the smallest telltale detail: a ladder left at a cave entrance, a small dot of light that might be a campfire, vehicle...
Last week the Army finally revealed some of the technical wizardry that makes the scopes work. Unlike the World War II infantry sniperscope that illuminated its target with an infra-red beam, the starlight scope needs no light of its own. Thus it is undetectable by enemy sensors. It uses only natural light, no matter how dim-moonlight, starlight, even the faint luminescence of decaying jungle foliage. Capable of amplifying light up to 40,000 times, it literally treats the darkest night...
...figured out the most logical places for Giap to concentrate men and supplies, then designated those areas as prime targets for U.S. planes. Dozens of reconnaissance aircraft were sent out to crisscross the area around Khe Sanh; even the heat from a match was enough to warn their sensitive infra-red cameras of Communist presence below...
...therefore little wonder that Stokely's book came as a major shock to white radicals. His analysis seems virtually to have overlooked the corporate capitalistic infra-structure of American society that is the focus of their attention. And only once in the entire book is even passing reference made to Vietnam. Martin Luther King, not to mention white radicals, must see this as a serious omission...