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...issue are five E-3A AWACS, converted Boeing 707s with an awesome array of supersophisticated radar and electronics equipment (see box). The White House confirmed last week that the AWACS (price with supporting equipment: $2.5 billion) would be included in the arms sale, with delivery beginning in 1985. Moreover, the White House said, the sale would be presented to Congress as a single package. Thus legislators who approve the sale of less controversial items, such as Sidewinder missiles and fuel tanks to double the range of F-15 fighters already ordered by the Saudis but have their doubts about AWACS...
...space agency has also been forced to delay until 1988 a project to orbit Venus with a satellite that will scan its cloud-veiled surface with radar beams. In 1986, Halley's comet, perhaps a chunk of debris left over from the early solar system, will return to the earth's vicinity for the first time since 1910. So far the space agency has been unable to scratch up the money for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intercept this visitor from deep space with cameras and other scientific instruments. Says George Rathjens, former chief scientist...
...only point on which Haig and the Israelis publicly disagreed was the planned sale of five American AW ACS, radar early-warning aircraft, to Saudi Arabia. The Israelis fear that the AWACS, which are capable of tracking aircraft up to 250 miles away, would be used to spy on their own air force. Said Eban: "The WACs would lay Israel naked to Arab eyes in the sky." Haig argued that arming Saudi Arabia was necessary to ensure overall security in the Persian Gulf and that Riyadh would be required to agree not to use the planes against Israel. Nevertheless, supporters...
...other two displays will inform the launch-site superintendent of the radar switching system's operation and the site's conditions...
October 3, 1979: A radar detected an orbiting rocket and generated a false launch and impact report (No public information on the action taken...