Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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...
...those days," recalls an ADC officer, "we were begging and borrowing whatever we could." Except for a few F-86s, the ADC had no interceptors or all-weather fighters. Its radar system included many "lash-up" sites, so called because the radar was literally lashed to the tops of telephone poles. Where there were gaps in the radar coverage, a Ground Observer Corps of housewives and farmers, gas station attendants and even commuters stood ready to phone in aircraft sightings...
...DETECTION. ADC has developed a radar network that includes the Pinetree Line along the northern U.S. border, the Mid-Canada Line, the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line at the Arctic Circle, and Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) bases at Clear, Alaska; Thule, Greenland; and Fyling-dales Moor, England. Under development: over-the-horizon radar capable of detecting missiles on actual launching from Russia or China, which will give the U.S. 30 minutes of warning instead of the present...
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...