Word: interceptor
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...fake bomb runs. Some roared in just 500 ft. above coastal waters. All radiated spurious electronic signals to confuse defense radar. In Colorado Springs, NORAD's commander, General Laurence S. Kuter, 56, sat in front of a giant battle screen in a windowless building, directing the simulated interceptor action that was taking place over 14 million square miles...
...killing 78,-ooo people. Ranging down in power, the U.S. has a large group of small tactical nuclear weapons for use in light rockets, artillery shells, torpedoes, antisubmarine depth charges, air-to-air missiles, etc. The warhead of the air-to-air Genie, which is carried by interceptor planes, yields one-tenth kiloton (100 tons). The state of the stockpile of these weapons is secret, but no U.S. authority can be found who does not believe that the U.S. is far ahead of the Russians in both quantity and quality of nuclear explosives. It is agreed, also, that both countries...
...radio communications-a "ferreting" job similar to operations of heavily equipped Soviet "fishing trawlers" that cruise continually off the American coasts. The plane lost radio contact some 300 miles west of Novaya Zemlya-just about the time that U.S. monitors picked up evidence of a flurry of Soviet interceptor activity in the area...
...when he would have 200 missiles tied into the SAGE net in the industrial Northeast and North Central states. To make up the difference in defenses against manned bombers, he promised to plug gaps in the three-year-old Distant Early Warning net (DEW line), beef up the manned interceptor-the F-104 and F106 - by better radar and longer-range airborne, atom-armed Falcon missiles...
...delta-winged, wasp-waisted Convair F106 interceptor, piloted by Major Joseph W. Rogers of Worthington, Ohio, took off from Edwards Air Force Base and climbed to 40,000 ft. (jets are slow at low altitude). Air conditions were ideal; the aircraft and its Pratt & Whitney J-75 engine were new but carefully chosen. In earlier tests, the engine had been revved up until its temperature reached the highest permissible level, and the fuel-input control was set at that point...