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Vital Difference. Basically, FOBS can pack the punch of some ICBMs-with a vital difference. Shot into a low orbit of 100 miles, the FOBS rocket slows and ejects its nuclear bomb before completing its route around the globe. This combination would prevent anti-ballistic missile radar (BMEWS), presently the U.S.'s main screen against surprise attack, from ascertaining the point of impact until the rocket "deboosts"-about three minutes and 500 miles from target. By contrast, the U.S. now has a 15-minute warning against ICBMs. Experts say that the Soviet FOBS could carry the maximum payload equivalent...
McNamara did his best to minimize the impact of his disclosure. He argued that FOBS is considerably less accurate than ICBMs, which was the primary factor in the U.S. decision against building its own FOBS several years ago. Further, he said, the U.S. has developed an over-the-horizon radar capable of tracking a missile from the moment of blast-off at Russia's Tyuratam ICBM complex; the new radar will be fully operational in February and will give Washington 30 minutes' warning of a potential attack. The new three-stage Spartan anti-ballistic missile will also increase...
...that had given Egypt particular, if short-lived, pleasure. For more than a day, the destroyer had been zigzagging back and forth in the bay of Romani, a niche in the Mediterranean at the entrance to the Suez Canal. In the knowledge that it was being tracked by radar from nearby Port Said, it alternately sped up and slowed down, darted from time to time into Egyptian territorial waters and then backed out again. It did almost everything but stick out its tongue...
...North has also been using ground radar in a more sophisticated fashion to track incoming bombers and has enabled its pilots to exploit an American blind spot. Knowing that U.S. pilots have to locate their targets-and must take pains to avoid restricted areas-the MIGs have been climbing above the clouds and out of sight to await the attackers. Then they swoop down like hawks, rip through a U.S. squadron with guns ablaze and vanish into the blue. With such tactics, the MIGs have lately shot down almost as many planes as they have lost-though the U.S. still...
...splintering antiaircraft shell that could accurately deliver a load of silver iodide as far away as 22 miles without scattering dangerous fragments on populated areas below. Selecting locations in the northern Caucasus, Georgia and the Armenian Republic that lie in a Soviet hail belt, the Russians set up enough radar installations and antiaircraft guns to detect and treat clouds over an area of 1,200,000 acres. During 1964 and 1965, thousands of shells were fired into threatening clouds...