Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stealth bomber, recently unveiled to the public, has long been popular in the American mind--witness commercials comparing Japanese cars to the sleek plane. This has created a difficult dilemma for President-elect George Bush. Because of its ability to avoid Soviet radar detection in flight, the Stealth is highly attractive to both the public and the defense establishment. But in view of the $500 million-a-piece price tag, Bush must decide whether we can really afford building these expensive new machines...
...been designated, looks like something out of a science-fiction movie. Its sleek design and black exterior give it the look of a cool, efficient fighting machine. Developers claim the Stealth can fly at speeds upwards of 600 m.p.h. while remaining undetected by even the most advanced radar systems. Experts say that the Soviets won't be able to distinguish between the Stealth and two birds flying together...
While the Stealth may enable our Air Force to do the exciting things described above, Time magazine claims "the same destructive tasks could be performed more cheaply by cruise missiles, which are also being constructed with radar-eluding Stealth technology." Furthermore, according to Time, the missiles might be even more effective than the Stealth because the Stealth cannot find targets on its own. It must depend on satellite communications, which the Soviets could jam. And other factors such as mid-air refueling and high flying Soviet planes may make the Stealth as radar-visible as any other plane...
...mine detector picked up a signal between two stones at the southwest corner. Harry Truman ruled against disturbing the ghost. Two years ago, Scouten tried a radar device and got an image in the same place. Among other decisions for George Bush will be whether to lift out that fragment of history and raise a few more glasses to the grand old home...
Virtually invisible to radar, the B- 2 is a military landmark. But what does it threaten more -- the Soviet Union or the federal budget? -- A small army of would- be wise men are proffering advice to President- elect George Bush. -- Why Secretary of State George Shultz threw himself into a one- man jihad that kept Yasser Arafat from speaking to the United Nations...