Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sleek bomber would be outmoded by missiles before it ever got into the air. This year the Air Force wants to modify the B70 plans and build the RS-70, which would be designed to fly over an enemy country hit by U.S. missiles, inspect the damage by radar, radio back reports and attack surviving targets with nuclear-tipped missiles. LeMay and Vinson, insisting that the U.S. will continue to need such bombers for some time, want to spend $491 million next fiscal year on a crash program to develop the RS-70. McNamara and President Kennedy want to spend...
...Since the RS-70 could not be adapted for airborne alert-patrolling the skies with a full load of arms-it would be a sitting duck on the ground for any surprise attack. Nor could the high-altitude RS-70 dodge enemy radar by streaking in for low-level attacks...
...Radar operators in the West Berlin air traffic control center were startled to find unusual pips showing up on their scopes. The signals were too small to be airplanes, much too concentrated to be a rainstorm. They were, in fact, reflections from great batches of aluminum chaff* dumped into the sky by high-flying Soviet planes. The idea, presumably, was to test new ways of confusing the flow of Western planes...
...supporting Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and his chief disarmament negotiator, peppery U.N. Ambassador Valerian Zorin, in the task of frightening the smaller nations. Again rejecting an inspected test-ban treaty, Khrushchev boasted of a "new" Soviet "global rocket," which "is invulnerable to anti-missile weapons" and makes U.S. radar detection systems useless, since the rockets "can fly around the world in any direction and strike a blow at any set target." This was hardly news, and the U.S. could make the same claim, as proved by the 5,000-mile flight of a Titan II rocket on the very same...
...American Airlines jet on take-off has dropped from the radar departure scope." Van Epps's first move was to call police to guard the wreckage from ghoulish souvenir hunters. Minutes later, he was over the wreck in a helicopter. By midafternoon, a specialist team from Washington had arrived to help, and a full-scale investigation was well under...