Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small, very promising missiles intended to take electronic countermeasures over enemy territory to mix up enemy radar. Advantage of Fiberglas: it is invisible to radar and infra-red detection. Northrop is also developing Crossbow, a vicious air-to-ground missile designed to home in on enemy radar stations and kill them. Another probable radar-killer: Navy's experimental Martin Bullpup...
...ahead of the defensive that antiaircraft and anti-missile systems can hardly expect to achieve more than 25% effectiveness. The U.S. is nonetheless now developing 25 defensive missiles, with prime attention to the Air Force's area-defense Bomarc, a ramjet-powered interceptor that is designed to kill enemy aircraft 350 miles away and 60,000 ft. up. Boeing's Bomarc is just moving into full production. This week the Air Force will give Boeing a production-letter contract for about 100 Bomarcs and ground-support equipment. The Army has long deployed around U.S. big cities its operational...
...planes are already using air-to-air guided missiles (with electronic or infra-red detection) to boost their chances of a hit, e.g., the Air Force's three types of the Hughes Falcon and the Navy's Sidewinder, but such missiles must make a direct hit to kill, can be deflected by enemy countermeasures. Most promising experimental Air Force air-to-air missile: the Douglas Genie, a non-guided atomic missile that can kill at near-miss range of half a mile or more by the brute force of its explosion. Genie has been test-fired successfully...
...tiny, disease-causing parasite, conveyed from mosquito to men and back again, has such an incredibly complicated life cycle that no one drug can kill its various forms, lodged in hideouts in different parts of the body. Area spraying (from Airplanes or trucks) is expensive, inefficient and may be self-defeating: some of the Anopheles develop resistance to DDT, thereafter thrive in its presence...
...process, infecting her victim with the parasites in her saliva), then rests on a wall before heading out. In a dwelling whose walls have been sprayed with DDT, these pauses are her undoing. As long as six months after a spraying, there is enough DDT left to kill her soon after contact...