Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harpoon missile sank at least two Libyan patrol boats and fired on three other naval "targets" with uncertain results. Designed initially as a surface-to-surface weapon, it scored one of its kills from an A-6 Intruder jet equipped to carry it. The 15-ft. missiles skim the waterline at 600 m.p.h. and smack into the target with a 500-lb. warhead. Powered by a small jet engine, the Harpoon has a range of some 50 miles...
...spotted a Soviet-built Nanuchka- missile Corvette sailing west out of the Libyan port of Benghazi. When the ship passed the twelve-mile limit, the A-6s attacked. Two hours later, at 1:15 a.m. Libyan time, the Aegis system aboard the Yorktown spotted a French- built Combattante patrol boat cruising the darkened waters of the gulf north of the "line of death." As the ship neared the American fleet, it speeded up. Kelso ordered the firing of two Harpoon missiles. "They saw a flash," said one official, "but we really aren't sure what we hit." The Navy...
...sustained diplomatic initiatives, in the Middle East or elsewhere, are hardly a foundation for an effective policy, especially against terrorism. Nor does the battle of Sidra provide much of a guide for retaliation when the source of the threat is not as easy to identify as a speeding patrol boat nor as simple to locate as a beaming radar installation...
...building a deep-water port on the Caribbean side, "similar," Reagan said in his speech, "to the naval base in Cuba for Soviet-built submarines." Under construction outside Managua is "the largest military airfield in Central America," said Reagan, "similar to those in Cuba from which Russian Bear bombers patrol the U.S. East Coast from Maine to Florida...
...contras, in fact, are a source of great uneasiness to the countries they use as a haven, Costa Rica and Honduras. Costa Rica has even agreed to join Nicaragua in creating a border patrol to stop contras from moving back and forth between the two countries. The fear that the contras might turn against their hosts in Honduras is "a nightmare for all of us," admits a CIA official...