Word: interceptible
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, Congress expressed dismay over Saudi Arabia's failure to intercept the Iraqi jet after an AWACS radar plane operated jointly by Saudis and Americans spotted it. Displeasure over the incident was so great that the Reagan Administration last week delayed submitting a proposal to sell new F-15 fighter jets to the Saudis. Remarked Byrd with considerable understatement: "I think it would have a tough ride right...
...Certainly the Stark, a lightly armed escort vessel, had an impressive array of aerial defenses. The ship's Mk 92 fire-control system can guide an antiaircraft missile to intercept incoming aircraft up to 90 miles away. Closer in, its Italian-made OTO gun can fire 3-in. antiaircraft shells at a rate of 90 a minute, dealing sequentially with as many as three incoming intruders at a range of up to twelve miles. Rockets that spray radar- attracting aluminum chaff can divert incoming missiles, and the frigate's electronic defenses can deceive attackers by producing fake radar images...
Number one: William Shatner. My first and perhaps greatest triumph. I was clever enough to intercept the legendary Captain kirk at my local Toys "R" Us, guided only by the posters and newspaper ads announcing his arrival. Unfortunately, a few thousand other reporters managed to beat me to the punch...
What protections there are primarily apply to those using public communications networks like the Source and CompuServe. The Electronic Communication Privacy Act, signed into law last fall, makes it a felony to intercept private messages sent through the networks and stipulates that law- enforcement officials must obtain a search warrant in order to examine backup copies stored in their computers...
...suspects that when Bracy and Lonetree shared night watch, Soviet agents were able to bug the most secure of the embassy's communications equipment and place intercept devices in highly sensitive cryptographic information, enabling them to read State Department messages before they were put in code. "There's lots of grounds for assuming the worst case in this instance," explained a White House source. Based on what Bracy and Lonetree have revealed, U.S. officials are convinced that for more than a year, beginning in mid-1985, the Soviets read every important classified communication issued by the embassy; the assumption...