Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defense and Foreign Policy. Any Pentagon contract worth more than $25 million could be vetoed by either house. Any arms sale could be stopped by concurrent House and Senate votes; it was just such a legislative veto that nearly prevented the sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia...
...representatives from all the major military and intelligence bodies and will make use of equipment from other agencies. Explained one Bush aide: "The military has to go on training missions anyway. If we know of a trouble spot, why not ask the Air Force to fly a plane with radar to that spot...
...Said University of Maryland Astronomer Michael A'Hearn: "The sulfur may be one of the few things we see that actually reside in the comet's nucleus." The most stunning observational feat came when the big, 1,000-ft. radio telescope in Arecibo, PR., managed to bounce radar waves off the fleeting object and perhaps settled the old argument over whether cometary nuclei are gaseous or solid. Said Harvard's Fred Whipple, dean of American comet watchers and chief proponent of the dirty-snowball theory: "The radar proves to my satisfaction that there is a solid object...
...week effort by 40 search vessels, the Swedish navy never flushed out what it believed were two or more foreign submarines lurking in the waters off Musk Island. Nor could it produce a satisfactory explanation of how the mysterious intruders had penetrated the defenses of the naval base, whose radar keeps a continual watch on Sweden's Baltic Sea coastline facing the Soviet Union...
...Nimitz and missile-carrying nuclear submarines comparable to the Tridents. The Blackjack bomber is intended to fill the role proposed for America's B-1B. Two new fighter jets being developed by the Soviets, the MiG-29 Fulcrum and Su-27 Flanker, are to contain high-tech radar and weapons-guidance avionics like those...