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...computers will take that information and in turn feed it to the missile sites, where a smaller radar called MSR (for missile site radar) will take over and-unless overruled by monitoring officers-fire the actual anti-missile missiles and keep them on target as they try to intercept...
...weight of their armament-eight 750-lb. bombs and 2,000 lbs. of cannon shells in each aircraft. High above and to the north, F-100 Super Sabre jets flew combat air patrol. Their mission: to forewarn of the approach of enemy aircraft and if possible to intercept. The Super Sabres' radar attention was directed mostly toward the north, where Hanoi's jet airfields are located (the Donghoi airfield, to the south, had been knocked out by U.S. bombing...
...urgent program to develop a manned bomber to follow the technologically aging B-52s and B-58s. And President Johnson again postponed a decision on whether to produce an anti-ballistic missile system, the much discussed Nike-X, which employs the high-speed Sprint missile and is designed to intercept even a saturation volley of incoming ICBMs. Engineering has progressed to the point where a final test series on the system is planned for this summer, after which the decision probably will hinge on whether Johnson feels Nike-X would be worth its cost, estimated at $20 billion...
...presidential plane, O'Donnell urged the crew to take off quickly because "all of us were under the assumption or apprehension that at some moment we either might not be granted clearance to take off, or that the hospital may have in some way gotten the police to intercept us-the difficulty of that to Mrs. Kennedy was incalculable...
...birds. Meteorological optics, such as mirages and sundogs account for many other sightings. Bright meteors, stars or planets are also responsible. Under special conditions, as studies clearly demonstrate, the observed "objects" can appear to move at fantastic speeds and display an ability to elude attempts of the observer to intercept it. Radar sightings are fully as subject to such vagaries as the optical sightings. There are also many hoaxes to confuse the issue further...