Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designed in the early 1970s as a successor to the B-52, which is now considered lumbering and vulnerable to sophisticated Soviet radar. Indeed, the chief attribute of the redesigned B-1B is that it can fly low to the ground, making it only one one-hundredth as detectable by radar as the B-52. As designed, the four-engine, needle-nosed B-1B is built to carry nuclear bombs and launch cruise missiles. It can fly long distances at high altitudes and supersonic speeds (750 m.p.h. or more). But once the plane nears enemy territory, it can dive down...
Reagan dramatically reversed Carter's decision in 1981 and hustled the B-1 into production. But now B-1 opponents have a new complaint: they claim the plane will soon be outdated by the Stealth bomber, with its new radar-evading technology and design, due to become operational in the early 1990s...
Hughes says it has suspended work on the missiles "as part of a far-reaching effort to improve production quality," and has delayed delivery of sophisticated radar systems that go into F14, F-15 and F-18 aircraft. The Pentagon has given Hughes until Sept. 1 to come up with a plan to improve its work...
...goal on San Clemente. It was guided by its own internal computer, which was programmed with a detailed map of the route to the target area. The map included the shape of various landmasses and buildings along the way. At selected points once the Tomahawk reached land, the radar system in its nose compared the actual terrain with the internal map; then the computer would periodically correct the missile's course. This constant readjustment enabled it to zero in precisely on target...
...become a symbol for both critics and supporters of the Pentagon's penchant for high-tech weaponry: at $950,000 a shot, it is designed to be launched from the Navy's supersophisticated F-14 fighter jets and to home in on enemy planes using computer-guided radar - when it works. Last week the Navy, which budgeted $388.7 million for the missiles this fiscal year, publicly complained about the quality of the product. It told Hughes Aircraft Co. it would no longer accept shipments because of "marginal workmanship." Said one Navy officer: "It's quality control throughout...