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...destroyer Forrest Sherman on a "routine" visit to the Saudi seaport of Jidda-the hoary political device that hints of force. And, though it was laconically denied in Washington, sources in the Middle East insist that the U.S. has agreed to a Saudi request that antiaircraft batteries and radar-control equipment be sent to the oft-bombed supply depot at Najran; this, hopefully, would have a sedative effect on Egyptian air raids inside the territory of Saudi Arabia itself...
...barges and 4,100 towboats that ply the inland waterways are less gaudy and singular but more practical than the old sternwheelers. Today's towboats (which actually push rather than pull their tows) have radar, depth recorders, six rudders and two propellers. Their diesel engines generate as much as 9,000 h.p., and can handle strings of barges longer than the Queen Mary...
...Anti-Missile Missiles: "He [Khrushchev] might hit a fly, but whether he could hit a thousand flies with decoys -you see, every missile that comes might have four or five missiles in it, or would appear to be missiles, and the radar screen has to pick those out and hit them going thousands of miles an hour. You can hit one. What you are trying to do is shoot a bullet with a bullet. Now, if you have a thousand bullets coming at you, that is a terribly difficult task which we have not mastered...
...quite see the pencils in the guys' shirt pockets. The airborne cameras are usually long gone before anything at the target can be hidden away. The plane flies faster than the sound of its own approach and it is too low to be spotted by radar' Men on the scene do not know that their pictures have been taken until the plane is gone and its trailing shock wave has hit them...
While airborne cameras are crisscrossing Cuba, more dignified electronic snooper planes circle the island. Some, with their bulky radar antennas, look like a fish that has just swallowed a turtle but their sensitive radar pictures sometimes reveal things that photographs miss. Other snoopers are loaded with electronic black boxes" that can record every electronic signal emanating from Cuba-from mambo music to messages for Moscow. No ground-based radar can search the sky without being recorded. Even hand-carried walkie-talkies can be heard by the bug ears...