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...Radar at Last...
Pilot 805 activates the radar and weapons systems that automate the aim of his missiles. He has extended the distance between his plane and the jetliner from 2 to 8 km (4.9 miles) to avoid debris from the soon-to-be-smashed target...
...businesslike tone, Pilot 805 informs ground control that he has fired his missiles. The Su-15 fighters normally carry two: one heat seeking, the other radar homing. Two minutes later, the pilot assures the ground that he has "launched both." The heat-seeking missile would have headed for one of the 747's engines; the radar-homing one would have streaked toward the giant fuselage...
...mission in the region near where the Korean jet went off course? Marshal Ogarkov reiterated the Soviet claim that the KAL plane was on a spy mission and flew in tandem with the RC-135 for ten minutes so that the blips of the two planes merged on Soviet radar screens. When they separated, he implied, the Soviets could not tell which was which. U.S. officials dismiss this scenario as ludicrous. The two planes, they say, passed each other 86 miles apart headed in opposite directions. At first, the Soviets reportedly referred to the Korean...
Along with the three airstrips that are being carved out of the jungle, a number of other installations helpful to the U.S. are under way in Honduras. One is a radar station on Tiger Island, a small outcropping that juts into the critical Gulf of Fonseca. That body of water separates Nicaragua from El Salvador. U.S. military officials are closemouthed about the purpose of the Tiger Island radar station. But the facility will obviously monitor the clandestine arms traffic that the Reagan Administration insists is flowing from Nicaragua to the rebels in El Salvador...