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...billion in war materiel to some 80 nations, ranging from submarines for the navies of Spain, Portugal, Pakistan and South Africa to daggers for Tunisian commando units. The best-selling French items: various models of the Mirage supersonic fighters, the agile and swift AMX tanks, Alouette helicopters and radar-guided Exocet antiship missiles...
ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES (ECM): Although the electronic "bubbles" that surrounded U.S. bombers and fighter-bombers over North Viet Nam gave them a high degree of protection against missiles and antiaircraft fire, the Soviets may learn to pierce the bubbles. The U.S. answer: new ECM techniques that can fool enemy radar into "seeing" a plane in the sky some distance away from where it actually is. Still largely cloaked in secrecy, the technology depends on mimicry and deception. Once a plane's instruments sense that radar signals are bouncing off it, they identify the type of pulses, memorize them and then...
COMMAND POST IN THE SKY: Defense Secretary James Schlesinger this month urged Congress to approve the construction of a squadron of modified Boeing 707s equipped with monstrous, mushroom-shaped radar domes for the Air Force's new airborne warning and control system (AWACS). Literally a command post in the sky, each plane will cost $111 million-the most expensive plane ever built by the Air Force. Packed with computers, radars and jamming gear, the AW ACS will be able to spot far-off targets, including very low-flying planes, and feed instructions to wide-ranging U.S. combat aircraft. Over...
...until it breaks through the water's surface and its engine takes over. When equipped with a terrain-following electronic guidance system, which is now being developed, it should be able to skim great distances over land or water (as far as 1,500 miles). while eluding enemy radar defenses. (In contrast, ballistic missiles follow high, arcing trajectories, which make them more vulnerable to radar detection.) Because the recent Vladivostok arms-limitation accord does not specifically limit cruise missiles, some strategists are even beginning to think of them as first-strike weapons against Soviet missile silos or military bases...
...made his pitch, stressing the importance of controlling the high ground and maintaining an effective "electronic alert." Evan, deputy commander of Israel's southern front and an armored expert who fought at Mitla Pass in '67, declined to explain what he meant by the term, but Israeli radar and listening devices round the Mitla are said to be so effective that they can detect Egyptian MIGs preparing for takeoff at bases several miles west of the Suez Canal...