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...HARM At least 1,000 of the creepy-sounding air-to-surface anti-radiation missiles helped deafen Iraq's air-defense radar system Cost: $200,000 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 2, 1998 | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...Iraq's antiaircraft-missile batteries are destroyed. That assignment is in the hands of electronic-warfare planes like the Air Force's EF-111 Ravens and F-16CJs and the Navy's EA-6B Prowlers, which will fly in behind the F-117s. Their jammers blank out ground-based radar and computer screens, and some of them let fly with HARM missiles, which home in on and destroy radar installations, leaving antiaircraft missiles at the site blind and useless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The Attack On Iraq Is Planned | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

This far-flung air battle will be directed by Air Force E-3 AWACS and Navy E-2 Hawkeye planes, the controllers aboard them squinting at radar screens tracking friendly and enemy planes in all directions. They will also be receiving up-to-the-minute data on Iraqi positions on the ground from the Navy's ES-3A Shadow jet, hovering just south of the Iraqi border, which will electronically vacuum up radio transmissions from Saddam's forces. The Shadow squadron's motto: In God We Trust--All Others We Monitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The Attack On Iraq Is Planned | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...Marine officials agree the plane was too low, and some wonder if it was trying to fly under the 300-ft.-high cable. The Prowler's combat mission calls for it to fly as low as 200 ft. in enemy territory, popping up only to jam or destroy enemy radar. But Marine rules require the plane to stay above 1,000 ft. during training, leading some in the Pentagon to believe the pilot was "hotdogging." It was, they add, the sole pilot's first time flying the challenging route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: The Skies Are Not for The Most Powerful | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...charge of teaching current events? Or self-control? In Philadelphia, Ginny Coco teaches sixth-grade health at the J.R. Masterman School, and she had just got to "Sexuality and Decision Making" when the names Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers bumped Fidel and the Pope off the radar screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indecent Exposure | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

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