Word: radars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usual, the Middle East promises two good shows, Downstairs, the Burning Airlines are playing and upstairs Arab on Radar will entertain while you feast on hummus and its related foodstuffs. The Middle East, 472/480 Mass. Ave. 864-EAST...
...building, which is being designed by architect Frank O. Gehry, will be located on the site of the MIT's historic Building 20, where radar was developed during World War II. That building was demolished last year...
Even as General Clark insisted he was not engaged in a race with the Serbs, he pressed Western capitals for reinforcements. Washington rushed to comply, and by week's end the Pentagon had dispatched more F-117A Stealths, B-52 bombers, Prowler radar jammers and refueling tankers, as well as B-1 bombers, to give NATO enough aircraft for round-the-clock operations. Top brass weighed the risks of sending in radar-visible Apache helicopter gunships that could lay down a withering blanket of bullets and rockets against small concentrations of Serb tanks and armor. There was also some worry...
Months of B-1 computer programming were compressed into less than 100 hours last week, as Air Force officers and contractors crammed the bombers' onboard computers with the latest intelligence on the radar and surface-to-air missiles they are facing over Yugoslavia. After a B-1 with the new software passed a critical flight test last Tuesday night in Florida, two B-1s were ordered into action two days later. The same night the B-1s debuted, so did the Predator, an Air Force drone able to relay targeting and bomb-damage data to commanders...
...Guided munitions, while more accurate, require pilots to fly in straight and predictable patterns before releasing them. That makes pilots more vulnerable to enemy fire. And SAMs may not be the most dangerous threat: Baghdad downed four times as many planes with antiaircraft guns and portable missiles as with radar-guided missiles. The Serbs have close to 2,000 of the smaller weapons...