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...Indeed, much of North Viet Nam remains a sanctuary from American bombs. From February through mid-June, U.S. Air Force and Navy fighter-bombers concentrated their attacks on the narrow, unpopulated strip of coastline between the 17th parallel and Thanh Hoa (see map). There the targets were strictly military-radar stations, staging areas, roads, bridges and naval vessels, and all were below the so-called "Hanoi line." Then on June 22, jets crossed the line, began pounding the mountainous bulge of country north and west of Hanoi, slamming tons of bombs and rockets into targets near such towns...
...steadily: in more than 4,050 sorties, jets and prop bombers have razed at least 30 military bases, knocked out 127 antiaircraft batteries, shattered 34 bridges. In their wake the planes left ablaze 17 destroyed truck convoys and an equal number of weapons-carrying trains, along with 20 radar stations, 33 naval craft and the entire Dong Hoi airbase. Yet even as the bomb line crumped closer to crowded Hanoi, there was no sign of Ho's flinching...
...manned by Soviet technicians. The birds themselves-perhaps six to a site-are the same that brought down an American U-2 over Cuba in 1962. They can pluck a plane from the sky at an altitude of 80,000 ft. and fully 35 miles away, riding a radar beam en route and destroying the aircraft with a proximity-fused high explosive or even a nuclear blast. Even after the rockets are mounted, U.S. pilots could take them out by sneaking in beneath the line-of-sight alert radars and slamming the concrete revetments that house the missiles with their...
...peak of 88 squadrons and 2,000 planes, ADC still has 59 squadrons, 1,400 fighters. Among the weapons they carry are infra-red Falcon missiles, heat-seeking Sidewinders, Genie air-to-air rockets, capable of toting nuclear warheads for demolishing enemy bomber formations. The fighters are linked to radar sites by the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment System (SAGE), which guides them straight to their targets, does everything but fire their weapons. ADC also mans six Bomarc surface-to-air missile squadrons in the northeastern U.S.; two Bomarc squadrons in Canada and hundreds of Army Hawk and Nike-Hercules missile...
Despite this impressive array of hardware, ADC and NORAD officers are pushing for at least three new defense systems: 1) the 2,000-m.p.h. YF-12A manned interceptor; 2) the Airborne Warning Control System (AWACS), using high-flying radar planes to detect low-flying bombers that try to sneak in under regular radar; 3) the Army's Nike-X system (TIME, June 18), designed to destroy enemy missiles. So far, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has not given a go-ahead on any of the three...