Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take the Claribel hostile fire indicator. This truck-mount - ed radar "tracks bullets ... and pinpoints their source but," adds the knowing copywriter, "ignores stones or bricks...
Also seriously threatened: VOIR (for Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar), a scheme to place a radar-equipped robot in orbit around Venus and map its cloud-covered surface. NASA officials are even talking about mothballing the Deep Space Network, a globe-girdling array of antennas that acts as a vital communications "downlink" with all U.S. unmanned planetary spacecraft. One effect of such a move would be to silence the transmissions of the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is scheduled to pass by Uranus...
...American Administration that had evolved a forceful, consistent foreign policy. The Reagan Administration is far from that position of strength. In the Middle East, one key aim is to reassure the Saudis of American friendship; the primary method of doing that is pressing the sale of AWACS radar planes, and that deal is still in deep trouble in Congress. In the broader area of foreign policy, the Administration has blown hot and cold on dealing with the Soviet Union and is relying heavily on a huge American military buildup. But Reagan's nuclear-arms plans also have stirred doubts...
Weinberger is said to be disappointed that so much attention has been focused on the MX missile and B-l bomber decisions. He feels that Reagan's proposal to improve U.S. radar and satellite communication systems, which went all but unquestioned at the hearings, is just as important as building new weapons. With these improvements, the President would be better able to launch a retaliatory strike while an enemy attack was under way, but before all American silos had been...
There was no compromise. The Senate had fervently hoped for some modification of the Administration's plan to sell five Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) jets to Saudi Arabia, some face-saving deal that would give the U.S. more control over use of the sophisticated radar planes. Yet Ronald Reagan decided last week to place his presidential power and prestige behind a proposal that most members had already declared unacceptable. "I have proposed this sale because it significantly enhances our own vital national security interests in the Middle East," he said at a news conference a few hours...