Word: radars
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...historical edge in weapons technology. While the Soviets continue to stress their traditional strength in numbers of tanks, planes and artillery, said Weinberger, "they have more weapons of higher quality and higher capability." He noted, for example, that the Soviets have installed a U.S.-designed state-of-the-art radar, obtained through espionage, in many new fighter aircraft...
HARM, the gold-plated ($283,000 each) high-speed antiradiation missile, which has been criticized by some Pentagon officials for poor test performance, succeeded in twice disabling a Libyan SA-5 radar station. Fired from the wing of a Navy A-7 Corsair jet, the missile homed in on signals emanating from the radar. A 14-ft.-long, 800-lb. weapon, HARM carries a 46-lb. high-explosive warhead over a range of about 40 miles. The Libyan radar resumed operations within hours of both attacks, but during a full-fledged battle, that would allow time for U.S. bombers...
...number of major achievements in space over the past 2 1/2 years. Among them: a record 237-day manned flight by three cosmonauts aboard the Salyut 7 space station, a daring repair mission to restart that station after a near total power failure, and a highly sophisticated radar mapping of Venus by two robot Venera probes. Earlier this month the Soviets dazzled the international scientific community with their Vega 1 and Vega 2 inspections of Halley's comet. Each Vega flyby was preceded by a swing past Venus to drop an instrument-laden balloon into the planet's dense atmosphere...
...downtown Miami the drug busters have just finished building an ultramodern electronic command post that resembles the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise in Star Trek. Drug agents hover 24 hours a day over four multicolored radar screens that display the entire region's traffic. When authorities spot a suspicious craft, they quickly calculate which law- enforcement boats or planes can make the fastest interception. Then they dispatch the police craft with a state-of-the-art radio network that puts dozens of federal and local agencies on the same wavelength. Customs Service technicians built the system from scratch, starting with...
...great many lives." Although Reagan and Weinberger both emphasize that there currently are no plans to involve American forces, the Pentagon has already established a foothold in Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras, where U.S. troops have been conducting maneuvers since 1983. A $30 million network of air bases, intelligence posts, radar stations and other installations has been built, and last week 96 engineers from the Fort Bragg, N.C.-based 82nd Airborne Division parachuted into Honduras to begin work on a 4,700-ft. runway within 25 miles of the Nicaraguan border...