Word: interceptor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right to liberate Taiwan. Mainland China, Teng now told the Ad ministration, will seek reunification, but slowly, peacefully, and in a manner that will not disrupt Taiwan's capitalistic economic system. The U.S. will continue to sell Taiwan "selective defensive weapon ry"?which might include interceptor air craft, artillery, and antitank weapons. Said Carter, during an unusual visit to the White House press room after his speech: "The interests of Taiwan have been ad equately protected...
DEFENSE. China's military force is hardly a match for the Soviet Union's 43 divisions and 100,000 crack KGB troops that confront the Chinese along a 4,500-mile frontier. China's air force relies on the aging MiG-21 as its front-line interceptor and on the ancient TU-16 and the Il-28 as its penetration bombers; its nuclear warheads are mounted on intermediate missiles with a range of no more than 4,000 miles. Its navy, though the world's third largest, is equally antiquated: its two nuclear-powered submarines carry...
...trouble comes in the form of a beetle-shaped Soviet satellite about 10 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, equipped with very-high-frequency radio antennas and small, square infra-red scanners that work in tandem with radar to direct the killer toward its orbiting prey. The anti-satellite interceptor (ASAT) has a parabolic "dish" antenna that homes in on the target satellite and gets the ASAT - actu ally a space bomb - close to the target, where it detonates. The ASAT goes off like a super hand grenade, spraying the victim satellite with metal-piercing fragments. ASAT's main...
...main considerations is the vast Soviet air defense network, largest in the world. Some 6,000 radar installations stretch from Murmansk to Vladivostok for early detection of a U.S. attack. The Soviet force of 5,000 interceptor aircraft includes 200 formidable MiG-25s, known as Foxbats, which have a top speed of 1,800 m.p.h. and a maximum altitude of close to 80,000 ft. In addition, the Soviets have about 12,000 surface-to-air missiles-low-level SA-3s and SA-6s and high-level SA-2s and SA-5s-at more than 1,000 sites...
Belenko's flight began at the Sokolovka airbase, 100 miles east-northeast of Vladivostok, where the Soviets are believed to maintain squadrons of their best interceptor aircraft. According to his Japanese interrogators, Belenko had been planning his defection for two years. "There is no freedom in the Soviet Union," he told his interrogators. "Nothing has changed since the czars. It's a suffocating country. You can tell the truth only when drinking vodka with your friends." Furthermore, his marriage was breaking up; he was alienated from his wife and small child, and apparently felt that his defection would...