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...heavy bombers (mostly aging B-52s) to only 135 Russian turbojet Bisons and turboprop Bears. But Soviet airspace is the most intensively defended in the world: 5,000 radar stations, 2,600 fighter interceptors, 12,000 highly accurate antiaircraft missiles. By contrast, U.S. air defense has been cut back. There are only a dozen squadrons of F106 fighters-mostly assigned to the Air National Guard-with a primary mission of intercepting Soviet bombers. With large-scale production already under way of the Backfire-a new, supersonic Soviet intercontinental warplane-Russia will narrow the bomber gap. Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force...
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...only as the principal thoroughfare between the nation's fifth largest city and Pontiac, but also as one last cement haven for the amateur drag racers who did at times barrel down the wide park way at speeds exceeding one hundred miles an hour. Today, staggered traffic lights and radar-equipped patrol cars have quashed what was once a standard form of recreation for many Michigan youths. At the tame speed limit of 50, the expanse of Woodward is now a half-hour drive, past Kentucky Fried Chicken and bullet proof liquor stores, closed automobile factories, the now-deserted Motown...
...Communists have joined with the renegade parties of Rumania and Italy to try to stall or even prevent Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's grand scheme for a European Communist Party Conference (TIME, Dec. 8). The Yugoslavs are also quietly exploring the possibility of buying fighter planes and radar and anti-aircraft defense systems from the U.S., in order to make Yugoslavia less dependent on the U.S.S.R. for maintenance of its Soviet-manufactured arsenal...
That remarkably good record can be attributed largely to improvement in air-traffic control. Until the mid-1960s, air-traffic controllers had to rely on old-fashioned radar to scan the skies and keep track of moving "blips" that represented individual aircraft. Now the controllers' vision has been increased enormously by improved radar and new electronic gadgetry. Every aircraft that flies above 18,000 ft. and in designated control areas carries a radar transponder that answers ground radar by flashing an identifying signal. The ground radar is assisted by banks of computers that display on the radar screen right...