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...typical flight operation at sea and an impressive display of a Sixth Fleet carrier's naval-air talents. The U.S.S. Forrestal with four escorting destroyers, was steering a complicated course between Sicily and Crete, exercising its special martial arts. The Phantoms and Corsairs flew off to drill in interceptor tactics or to make practice runs with dummy bombs and missiles. Electronic-surveillance planes stuffed with microtechnology ranged far and wide on reconnaissance flights. The destroyers darted off or raced back to the carrier according to their own tactical plans. Periodically, tankers showed up to refuel...
...over Soviet territory that no plane or missile could reach it; it was only when Francis Gary Powers' U-2 was downed by a new Soviet missile in 1960 that the world learned of the spy plane's existence. Johnson's double delta YF-12 interceptor remained unchallenged for a decade until Mikoyan's MIG-25 became operational...
...MRCA fighter-bomber interceptor gets off the ground nicely this week, it may also take some business from U.S. companies. The swing-wing, twin-engine plane can break the sound barrier at near treetop level (752 m.p.h. at sea level), then soar high into the stratosphere at more than 1,350 m.p.h. -and do all this while carrying an unusually heavy weapons payload. The plane is specifically designed to replace aging U.S. aircraft in the West German Luftwaffe and navy, the Royal Air Force and the Italian air force...
...only one?the problem-ridden F-111. Now the U.S. is developing two new fighters, the F-15 for the Air Force and the F-14 Tomcat for the Navy. The Tomcat is equipped to carry the Phoenix missile, which is capable of knocking out the Soviets' newest interceptor, the MIG-25, but costs $23.3 million ?more than twice the original estimated price. The Soviet Union has the edge in antiaircraft missiles. Its air defenses boast some 10,000 launchers, including the deadly SA-6, which knocked down U.S.-built jets with devastating accuracy during the Middle East...
...secret base tucked away in the jungles of Southeast Asia, 20 small, stripped-down jet aircraft are catapulted into the air from the backs of large trucks. As they come within range of enemy radar, the planes take electronic measures to prevent detection. They are spotted by several interceptor aircraft but manage to outmaneuver them. Finally, the minibombers reach their target and unload their explosives with deadly accuracy. Several enemy surface-to-air missiles score hits on the raiders, but not a single pilot is killed, lost or captured. Reason: the mission has been flown entirely by robot aircraft, guided...