Word: radars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...welded-steel catamaran that is the latest thing in Navy technology: a Stealth ship. Designed by the same Lockheed "skunk works" that built the F-117A Stealth fighter, the ship has sloping angles and a special coating designed to make it nearly invisible to enemy sonar and radar. Such stealthy boats might someday guard the perimeter of carrier groups, covertly launch surface-to-air missiles or make nighttime troop landings all but undetectable...
...track ships at sea, especially those from the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. If the three satellites had been deployed as planned into a triangle in space, their electronic sensing devices would have calculated the position of ships on the basis of radio and radar transmissions. But the U.S. has two such systems already in place and a spare set available if needed...
Systems waiting to go into orbit include the first of the new Milstar communications satellites, designed to maintain military communications in a nuclear war; a Defense Support Program heat-sensing satellite to give warning of hostile missile launches; and a Lacrosse satellite with a special radar system to provide detailed pictures of the ground even through clouds and at night. One of the two Lacrosses currently in orbit has been up for more than four years and needs to be replaced. "Any lengthy delay in getting the Titan IV operational could be critical to the U.S. surveillance capability," said Richelson...
...memo below is the smoking gun in the General Accounting Office's recent damning evaluation of the Pentagon. The Air Force issued data deceptively understating the size of the radar profile of the B1-B bomber. This Air Force ^ memo contains the accurate data (here blacked out by the GAO), along with the admonition that that information be kept from the GAO. The Pentagon gave the memo to the GAO by accident...
...despite the future-shock flourishes, most of Zooropa flies beneath the radar, mapping a personal terrain of reflection and emotional catharsis. The sensory overload of superstardom is chillingly conveyed in Numb as the Edge's monotonic vocal is underscored by a lacerating guitar lick. Other songs are suffused with a sense of fleeting time. In Some Days Are Better than Others, Bono observes, "Some days take less but most days take more/ Some days slip through your fingers and onto the floor." And in the hymnlike Dirty Day, he seems to glimpse his own mortality as he sings, "These days...