Word: radar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battalion of 550 Marines armed with 54 Hawk ground-to-air missiles to Danang to protect scores of aircraft parked wingtip to wingtip on aprons. The Hawk is a killer at up to 45,000 ft. and at a distance of 22 miles, homes in on enemy aircraft by radar. The dispatch of the Hawks was merely an extra precaution against the possibility that some 50 MIG-15s and MIG-17s-a gift from Red China-sitting still unused at Phucyen airbase near Hanoi, might be called into action. One 18-missile Hawk battery flew out of Okinawa...
...fact, several such planes -adapted models of the familiar Boeing 707 commercial airliner-that spell each other in eight-hour, all-weather shifts. No one plane lands until another has become airborne. Dubbed "Looking Glass," the plane is manned by a crew that flies a random pattern within radar distance of SAC's Omaha headquarters. The SAC general aboard, one of 50 who regularly pull Looking Glass duty, is the AEAO (for Airborne Emergency Actions Officer). He is in charge of a group of officers and technicians maintaining instant communications with Omaha, the White House, the Pentagon, and each...
...cause of the uproar was the threatened cancellation of Britain's all-purpose TSR-2 bomber. A superbly sophisticated airplane that can fly at twice the speed of sound twelve miles high, or barrel along on the deck to elude enemy radar, the TSR-2 was first intended to be a light bomber. Later the plane was modified for direct support of ground troops, replacing the canceled Blue Water artillery missile. Then two years ago, when the U.S. decided to scrub its Skybolt air-to-ground thermonuclear missile, which had been destined for sale to the R.A.F...
Modern bomber-plane crews know just what to do when their receivers pick up the pings of an enemy radar. They transmit pings of their own designed to confuse an oncoming fighter or trick an attacking missile into veering toward empty air. Such sophisticated electronic countermeasures may be the latest thing in aerial warfare, say Entomologists Dorothy C. Dunning and Kenneth D. Roeder of Tufts University, but the idea is not at all new to non-human flyers. For millions of years, shifty moths have been using similar sound-pulsing stunts to protect them selves from marauding bats...
...sure why the trick works. The moth's sounds may convey the message that the sender is not good to eat, or in some way they may deceive the bat's echo-location system. Whatever the moth clicks do, they are as effective as any man-made radar jammer...