Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This ancient bomber is groping upward, electronically blind, attempting to join five others stacked in layers just 500 ft. apart. At 10,000 ft. the sky is an inkwell, and the primary and back-up heading systems are out. The radar works sporadically, and even when it does function, it provides tunnel vision, off to one side. The only dependable navigation aid is a simple compass, just like the ones people stick on the dashboards of their cars...
Those 19 trainers were joined in El Salvador last week by a six-man naval training team that will help repair engines and radar equipment on Salvadoran patrol boats. The Reagan Administration is also sending four five-man training teams within the next few weeks to instruct Salvadoran troops in such subjects as intelligence, combat techniques and the use and maintenance of helicopters...
...also readying some $25 million in new equipment for El Salvador, including helicopters, vehicles, radar and surveillance equipment, and small arms. But El Salvador's greatest need may be more ships for its modest navy: only three of its eight aging patrol boats are seaworthy. The navy's futility is proved by how poorly it patrols the waters between El Salvador and Nicaragua, the route by which many arms shipments are smuggled to the guerrillas. When asked how many shipments the navy halted this year and last, Salvadoran Coast Guard Officer Nelson Angulo formed a circle with...
...Last March the Carter Administration announced the formation of a Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force of 200,000 men, from which an expeditionary force could quickly be formed. To monitor Iranian air activity across the gulf after the Iraq-Iran war broke out last fall, Washington dispatched four AWACS radar early warning planes, along with 500 men to operate them. Last week the Reagan Administration took American commitment to the Saudis a big step forward: the State Department announced that the U.S. would sell the Saudis at least some of the F-15 accessories they had been seeking. Included...
...instead to pour more kill power into the Salvadorean death machine. The New York Times reported two days ago that Reagan is committed to sending the Salvadorean regime another $225 million in economic aid, and another $25 million worth of military equipment--a gift package of helicopters, "small arms," radar systems, trucks and jeeps. Reagan will also dispatch an extra 34 military advisers from the Pentagon to join the 25 "training experts" already there. If you think the Salvadorean people feel the heat of American military operations now, try to imagine what happens if one of our military advisers...