Word: radar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radar stations in Turkey have counted hundreds of firings of 800-mile Russian intermediate-range ballistic missiles (v. 30-40 U.S. IRBM firings...
...weather, delta-winged interceptor. The big Russian interceptor force is helped in its job by what may be the world's best air-detection network. Soviet planes have not yet been able to gun down U.S. planes at high altitudes, but they have seen them on their radar-proof that they are not asleep at the oscilloscope...
...Soviet have spotted no missiles save for Nike-type anti-aircraft birds around Moscow and a few others on flat-bed trucks in Moscow parades. This gives rise to a Western suspicion that the Russians are not so advanced in missilery as the Sputniks would indicate. Nevertheless, the U.S. radar posts have "watched" 800-mile flights from the Krasny Yar missile range and from the island of Novaya Zemlya off the northern coast in the Arctic Sea; and the Russians have shot an ICBM thousands of miles. It may be that they have not yet developed a dependable nose cone...
...Mobile radar, mounted on two two-wheel trailers can instantly pinpoint hidden enemy mortars more than six miles distant (mortar fire accounted for more than half the Army's World War II and Korean war casualties...
...million into Nasser's treasury as profit. His hastily recruited 220 pilots, replacing those who walked off in a body one day, include six Americans, 21 West Germans, 40 from Communist countries, and 100 Egyptians. They have worked well. By way of improvement, Younis hopes to install radar, walkie-talkies for pilots, and eventually closed-circuit TV to control headquarters ashore. He also talks of building a smaller canal paralleling the present one, to facilitate passing. All this will take major outside financial...