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...summer is going to be an electrifying one, an electronic one. There will be some fighting, but its accent will probably revolve around the deployment and setting up of new weapons systems. There will be lots of aerial incursions." By an electronic summer, Dayan meant clashes between Soviet-built, radar-controlled Egyptian surface-to-air missiles and Israeli jets equipped with electronic countermeasure (ECM) devices. Bearing out Dayan's forecast fully, the electronic war last week was humming at full frequency-and it involved not only the principal Middle East adversaries but increasingly the U.S. and Russia...
...would respond. In North Viet Nam the same type of SA-2s had a "kill" rate of less than one success per 1,000 firings. Suddenly they shot down two Phantoms within 30 minutes (the third downed Phantom was apparently hit by antiaircraft fire), indicating obvious improvements in their radar systems...
...every battery we have a few Russian officers who maybe do not push the button, but who make sure the button is not pushed before or after it should be." Bar-Lev was particularly concerned because the SA-2s appeared to be equipped with better acquisition and guidance radar systems than previous models. In addition, the missiles that brought down the Phantoms were fired in a "ripple" or sequence pattern, which can prove devastatingly difficult to evade...
...turn around the rolling, twisting, 7,151-yd. layout-the longest par-72 course in U.S. Open history-and groused: "On eleven of the 18 holes, you can't even see the area where the drives land." Billy Casper complained that on many approach shots he needed radar to spot the flagsticks. Bert Greene, experiencing similar problems, decided to "shoot for a cloud-preferably one that isn't moving." Don January and Homero Blancas were more down to earth. They simply refused to play "that Jones course...
Since the SA-3s' radar is incapable of tracking targets below 500 ft., Israeli pilots are said to be training to fly at 200 ft.-even at night. The Soviet answer is a new and reportedly highly effective defense system called ZSU234, which could be used to protect the SA3 sites against ground-hugging planes if the Israelis should eventually decide to attack them. The ZSU234 is a fourbarreled, 23-mm., radar-directed light antiaircraft weapon mounted to a tanklike tracked vehicle...