Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...windshield, in phosphorescent green and orange, is a mass of essential data. An F-15 pilot flashing over the Bekaa could have watched the plotted positions of four separate enemy aircraft and also have been alerted by a flashing light and beeping in his headset if an SA-6 radar locked on to his jet. The F-15's computerized electronic countermeasure (ECM) equipment would have taken over, perhaps electronically "disguising" the F-15 to Syrian radar, then determining which enemy threat was the most immediate. If a jet-propelled SA-6 were fired, traveling toward the Israeli plane...
Israel's air-to-ground missiles are also formidable examples of Star Wars electronics. The U.S.-built Shrike missiles are designed specifically to knock out ground-based antiaircraft batteries such as the SA-6s. From as far away as 25 miles, the Shrikes' radar-seeking device can be tuned precisely to the SAM'S frequency probably recorded by Israeli drone planes flown over the area before the strikes. The Shrike missiles could then home on the target, effectively turning the enemy missile control system against itself...
Consequently, the commanders opted for a pause that would allow them to pick off the softest points on the Argentine perimeter-radar posts, ammunition dumps and artillery concentrations-while trying to draw enemy troops out of their prepared positions onto open ground, where they could be surrounded. About 1,000 of the occupying troops in Port Stanley were believed to be elite marines, the best fighters Argentine Commander Menendez had at his disposal. The remainder were relatively untrained conscripts who might prove to be vulnerable to such tactics, although, as one British paratrooper said, "a gun in the hands...
...Buenos Aires in the way of military assistance. Washington sources say that Moscow has been giving the Argentines satellite data on the location of British ships for "some time," and there were unconfirmed reports last week that some 20 Soviet technicians were helping the Argentines link up a nationwide radar system. Most Western analysts, however, doubted that Buenos Aires would fall under the Soviet shadow...
Once he gets an enemy plane in front of him, a Harrier pilot can rely on sophisticated electronics to make his kill. The forward-and down-looking "Blue Fox" radar spots the target at distances of up to 40 miles. A TV-like display screen on the windshield flashes the computerized tracking data that tell the pilot when to fire. Since the latest version of the Sidewinder missile carried by the Sea Harrier has what the experts call a wide-angle "boresight," the pilot only has to aim in the general direction of his target-within 40 degrees-and press...