Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radar device...
...violation of the course line would have disqualified the flight. Said General Moore: "It was like running blindfolded at top speed into a completely dark room, then running a perfect circle guided by the voice of someone outside the room." The "voice" outside, of course, was a form of radar ground control similar to that which helps aircraft land in bad weather...
...missile activity. The Navy tracked a couple of Russian intercontinental missile shots into northern waters, considered deploying a U.S. submarine to snag a made-in-Moscow ICBM nose cone before Russian pick-up ships could get to it. During the past fortnight the Navy watched with increasing interest as radar-studded Russian trawlers headed thousands of miles southward into the Central Pacific. Last week the Navy and the U.S. got the news through Moscow's Tass Agency of what the Red fleet...