Word: loiter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chances for approval of the embattled ABM. For the White House regards its Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system as the answer to the presumed Russian MIRV threat. Among his other warnings, Secretary Laird has said that the Russians are developing an ABM system of their own that can "loiter for a period of time until a specific target is selected...
...radar. The only way to hit them is by eyeballing them first." Since most of the Navy's and Air Force's operational jets were designed primarily for quick hit-run attacks in a nuclear war, they have neither the fuel capacity to loiter long over targets nor the armor plating to withstand ground fire...
Combat-Bound. As the first plane developed for close support of ground troops since World War II, the Corsair has both. It can loiter for more than four hours over a target and withstand hits by small-caliber ground fire on any of its vital parts. Just as important is the fact that-like a Volkswagen-it requires relatively little maintenance and can be outfitted with a new engine in less than an hour. Its normal armament includes two 20-mm. machine guns, plus any combination of the 200 varieties of bombs and missiles in the Navy...
...ground before hitting its target; the Navy model would be light enough to fly off carriers and provide air defense for the fleet. Because both services wanted a jet with sliding wings that would allow it to take off in short spaces, land slowly, sprint at Mach 2.5 or loiter for hours, McNamara's experts calculated that $1 billion could be saved if the services used the same basic craft...
...that makes them more vulnerable to intense flak and small-arms fire. Moreover, as one Air Force general put it, if the MIGs were forced to retreat to Red Chinese airfields, their effectiveness would be drastically reduced, since they would then have only three to five minutes' "loiter time" over Hanoi...