Word: radar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anti-Missile Missiles: "He [Khrushchev] might hit a fly, but whether he could hit a thousand flies with decoys -you see, every missile that comes might have four or five missiles in it, or would appear to be missiles, and the radar screen has to pick those out and hit them going thousands of miles an hour. You can hit one. What you are trying to do is shoot a bullet with a bullet. Now, if you have a thousand bullets coming at you, that is a terribly difficult task which we have not mastered...
...quite see the pencils in the guys' shirt pockets. The airborne cameras are usually long gone before anything at the target can be hidden away. The plane flies faster than the sound of its own approach and it is too low to be spotted by radar' Men on the scene do not know that their pictures have been taken until the plane is gone and its trailing shock wave has hit them...
While airborne cameras are crisscrossing Cuba, more dignified electronic snooper planes circle the island. Some, with their bulky radar antennas, look like a fish that has just swallowed a turtle but their sensitive radar pictures sometimes reveal things that photographs miss. Other snoopers are loaded with electronic black boxes" that can record every electronic signal emanating from Cuba-from mambo music to messages for Moscow. No ground-based radar can search the sky without being recorded. Even hand-carried walkie-talkies can be heard by the bug ears...
...these toys fail to please, nationwide big sellers also include Douglas Army A-24 Attack Bomber, 155M Long Tom Field Cannon, Cape Canaveral Play Set, 5' long Basooka Rocket Gun, Electronic Rifle Range with Motorized Moving Target, Sonar Subhunt with a radar screen so you can "search out and destroy your enemy," and Astroscope, that "Sends Up Satellites" (only for children over...
...valves to move them around. Whole technologies had to be developed to make them behave properly. Pratt & Whitney scientists are confident that SNAP-50 will be well tested by 1965. When it finally takes to space, it will find plenty of important work: providing electricity for long-distance radar and communication, working the spacecraft's instruments and internal machinery, running an ion propulsion engine to change course while cruising through deep space...