Word: radar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles). Since he believes that naval guns are obsolete, Admiral Gorshkov has equipped almost all Soviet surface ships, from the smallest to the largest, with ship-to-ship missiles. The Soviet missiles are so-called "cruise missiles" that fly about 700 miles an hour, steer themselves either by radar or heat-seeking systems and carry either conventional or nuclear warheads. The U.S. experimented with similar weapons in the 1950s but dropped them in favor of concentrating on "the Polaris and airpower. No Western navy, in fact, has such missiles...
Under the Sea. Even finding the missing subs proved impossible. Dozens of planes and ships equipped with radar and sonar sounding devices searched wide stretches of the Mediterranean without success. They found bits of debris and oil slicks, which are common in busy sea lanes, but analysis failed to link the findings with either the Dakar or Minerve. When the oxygen reserves of the two vessels were exhausted three to four days later, hopes for saving the 121 crewmen were abandoned...
Speeding motorists will now have to contend with another highway-patrol device, one that has proved considerably more accurate than simple speedometer pacing and more flexible in operation than radar tracking. It is known as VASCAR (Visual Average Speed Computer And Recorder) and consists of a small computer mounted in the front seat of a patrol car. By measuring time and distance and then converting them into an average-speed reading, it can clock automobiles coming, going or even crossing...
Pueblo's unprepossessing, 179-ft.-long hull is fitted out with the latest in sophisticated ELINT equipment-globe-girdling single-side-band radio, hyperaccurate radars, sonars and navigation instruments. Another primary aim of the "spook ships"-espionage satellites like Samos and spy planes like the U-2 -is to be "painted" or "illuminated" by enemy radar, whose beams fall on the ship's sensitive receivers. Those signals are taped and sent back to Washington for detailed analysis. By charting radar pulse repetition rates and frequencies, intelligence officers can identify the electronic signalings of known radar systems and thus...
...locate radar and radio sources, Pueblo employed the twin antennas mounted forward of the wheelhouse. Domelike direction finders and "tropo-scattering" sensors (which can "read" signals bouncing from the troposphere) are mounted on the foremast to analyze those signals and to eavesdrop on radio communications. The ship is equipped to test salinity levels, temperatures and algae growth in various parts of the Sea of Japan-all valuable information for sonar operators. Pentagon photos of Pueblo taken after the ship's renovation in Bremerton, Wash., show advanced low-frequency antennas that would permit the ship to communicate with U.S. nuclear...