Word: radar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Airmobile combat troops, their artillery and ground vehicles, will be flown into combat by the division's 400 huge LOH, Chinook and Iroquois helicopters. The division will have six twin-engined Grumman OV1 Mohawks with infra-red scanning devices, radar and cameras for reconnaissance duty. One of the division's three brigades will be trained as paratroops...
...concealed Communist troops by surprise in their jungle hideout. SAC had long been restless to get into the war, and General William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam, gave SAC its wish. The big bombers would unroll a carpet of destruction, carefully tacked down by radar-controlled bombsights guaranteed to produce pinpoint accuracy. The plan was approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, by the Pentagon, and then forwarded to the White House. Lyndon Johnson said...
Revolutionary Radar. Nike-X's brain is a revolutionary, Army-developed multifunction array radar (MAR), which uses lightning-fast electronic switching instead of the conventional radar an tenna to direct its beams, thus can "see" 360° at a glance. The Army now has a prototype MAR installation at White Sands, N. Mex., is building another on Kwajalein Island in the Pacific. MAR can 1) detect incoming missiles hundreds of miles away; 2) determine which of the missiles have warheads and which are decoys; and 3) track the missiles as they streak toward their U.S. targets...
...across the U.S. will stand sentry duty against ICBM attacks. A MAR center outside New York City, for example, will cover the East Coast from New England to Washington. Each center will have a three-story, underground, concrete-and-steel residence for computers assessing the information given by the radar beams...
Operating in nanoseconds (billionths of a second), the computers will take that information and in turn feed it to the missile sites, where a smaller radar called MSR (for missile site radar) will take over and-unless overruled by monitoring officers-fire the actual anti-missile missiles and keep them on target as they try to intercept...