Word: radar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Iron Handle. The 36-ft. radar-guided Russian SAMs carried Ho Chi Minh's main thrust-and fizzled. Twenty-three SAMs were fired at U.S. planes last week, including a record 16 on a single day. All missed, thanks to a highly sophisticated defense-part electronic trickery, part "jinking" (violent evasive maneuvers)-used by U.S. pilots. When a mission goes in, radar-rigged C121 Constellations, called "the Big Eyes," orbit off the Tonkin coast, able to pick up a missile launch at the moment of ignition. The Big Eyes flash an instantaneous radio warning to the fighter-bomber pilots...
...strike area was two miles northwest of Haiphong (pop. 375,000), North Viet Nam's biggest port and second largest city. First, the leading Phantoms bombed and rocketed the formidable concentration of radar-directed antiaircraft batteries ringing the port's walled oil-storage facilities. While other F-4s prowled overhead and to the north to ward off any attacking MIGs, the Skyhawk attack bombers swooped on their targets. Within eight minutes, they had dropped 19 tons of bombs and 5-in. Zuni rockets on the nation's principal oil-storage complex (capacity 476,000 barrels), its only...
After detecting a radar aiming-signal pulsing from a Russian-installed surface-to-air rocket site 30 miles north of the city (one missile was believed fired but never visually spotted), four Thunderchiefs went after the nest, which was demolished by one of them. Whereupon four MIG-17s jumped the F-105s damaging two. Outmaneuvering one MIG, Major Fred L. Tracy, 38, of Goldsboro, N.C., got on his adversary's tail, opened up with 20-mm. cannon and was credited with a probable kill. The remaining MIGs fled...
...enemy came up for air, the overcast and seemingly empty sky began raining bombs. For 47 minutes they fell in lethal, patterned precision, laying open the ridge in a giant surgical slash. The bombs came from 24 high-flying B-52s guided in from Guam by "sky spot" radar controllers on the ground. Within five minutes after the last bomb had burst, G.I.s were swarming over the ridge-or what was left of it. The scattered pockets of resistance that had survived the lash of destruction were soon wiped...
Cushioning the Jolt. They were, Small vernier rockets near each of the craft's three legs fired to stabilize the spacecraft in a base-down attitude. When the radar sensed that Surveyor was precisely 52 miles above the moon, it fired a powerful, solid-fuel retrorocket that slowed the craft from 5,840 m.p.h. to only 267 m.p.h. in 40 seconds...