Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...process, the F-lll has indeed become the world's most advanced and versatile jet. It has also become something less-and more-than either the Air Force or Navy wanted. As originally envisioned, the Air Force version would be capable of ducking under enemy radar and making a 400-mile supersonic dash just above the ground before hitting its target; the Navy model would be light enough to fly off carriers and provide air defense for the fleet. Because both services wanted a jet with sliding wings that would allow it to take off in short spaces, land...
...from the tribulations of the F-lll. The Russians' Mikoyan-designed fighter has its air ducts placed far forward on the fuselage, apparently thus avoiding engine-stall caused by rearward ducts on the F-lll. Nevertheless, the F-lll is still the hottest plane, packing the most advanced radar and missile systems in the skies today, giving the nation a swinging aerial edge...
Pentagon officials maintained there was little risk of accidental intrusions into the Red homeland. Development of improved communications, navigational and radar equipment has greatly reduced the chances of U.S. supersonic jets straying over the border, they said...
Others attacked (number of targets classified): Naval bases, munitions factories, iron-and steelworks, cement plants, radar and flak sites, railyards and shops, and communications installations...
...deft hand with a bridge deck and dice, and led the varsity sailing club to two straight national intercollegiate championships. Commissioned an ensign in the Navy in 1943, he applied for the Small Craft Training Center in Miami. The Navy, in its infinite wisdom, sent him to radar school instead, but Bus finally wrangled a transfer to the carrier Liscome Bay-a transfer that fell through when doctors found he had a hernia. He has no regrets: Liscome Bay was later torpedoed off the Gilbert Islands, and went down with most of her crew...