Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unveiled last week, the price of the Saudi arms package totaled $8.5 billion. The five AWACS, whose advanced radar enables them to detect aircraft at a distance of 250 miles to 350 miles, and their support facilities account for $5.8 billion of that, and have attracted the most attention. Yet the proposal also includes 101 sets of fuel tanks to extend the range of the Saudis' fleet of 62 F-15 Eagles. Probably the world's best jet fighters, the F-15s will be sent to the Saudis in a sale that former President Jimmy Carter pushed through...
...south was Libya, led by the unpredictable and often hostile Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and since U.S. and French aircraft had been harassed over the Mediterranean by Libyan planes, the U.S. pilots were ready for trouble. To the north of the F-14s flew two carrier-based E-2C Hawkeye radar planes, smaller counterparts of the Air Force AWACS, spotting approaching aircraft and ships...
Thus there was nothing surprising or particularly ominous about the approach, at 7 o'clock Wednesday morning, of another pair of Libyan aircraft from the south. The Hawkeyes detected them and radioed the CAP. Two silvery F-14s from the Nimitz swung south, spotted the Libyans on their radar, and moved in to identify them. As the two flights approached almost head on, one of the Soviet-built Su-22 planes fired an air-to-air Atoll missile at the F-14s. U.S. forces heard the pilot say in Arabic, "I have fired." He missed...
...more recent clash along the Angolan-Namibian border, several Angolan army regulars and at least two South African soldiers were killed. Such actions have provoked a pointed Angolan response: South African military observers report the deployment in southern Angola, allegedly with Cuban and East German aid, of sophisticated radar and surface-to-air missiles to guard against South African air attacks. Says Major General Charles Lloyd, commander of the South African forces in Namibia: "We are preparing ourselves mentally and physically for a more serious...
Both products provide amazingly realistic scenes of life in a control tower. With Air Traffic Controller, a radar-like air map on the video screen displays two airports and two navigational reference points. Off to one side, the speed, altitude and destination of incoming traffic are recorded. The player is supposed to shepherd 26 planes, while constantly watching to make certain that no two planes collide. He has between 16 and 99 min.to guide all the aircraft to safety. If he makes a fatal mistake, the dreaded word "conflict" flashes on the screen...