Word: radars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...present jerry-built nonsystem. Some will try to find reasons to vote for reform, and even those who are inclined to oppose it are leery about unleashing their ultimate weapon, the Senate filibuster. Says an aide to Senate Republican leader Robert Dole: "It's not even on the radar screen at this point. A filibuster might be viewed as an endorsement of the status quo on health care, and a lot of Republicans don't favor that...
...additional materiel. Slovak plants could provide T-72 tanks. Small arms, including the Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle, might be obtained from Afghan arms bazaars or a sympathetic stockpiler like Syria. To counter the Serbs' 105-mm artillery pieces and T-72 tanks, the Muslims could use Western-made counterartillery radar, which Washington would have to ( supply directly or through allies. The Pentagon would want to ship TOW antitank weapons and light armored vehicles -- fast, mobile carriers useful for keeping forces together -- as well. One nonlethal item of great utility would be tactical radios to improve Muslim command and communications. Since...
...balmy Adriatic evening, U.S. Navy attack planes leap from the deck of their carrier on tails of flame. As they climb through the gathering darkness, signals from the radar domes and computers of Air Force AWACS planes direct the jets to targets nestled in the forests and pastures of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ahead of them, electronic-warfare jets swoop down to jam any Serbian antiaircraft radar that might still be working...
...Since I don't pick it up on my radar, perhaps I need to sit with groups and see how people feel about it," Berry said...
...FOUR AMERICAN FIGHTER JETS WERE ON A ROUtine monitoring flight over northern Iraq when ground radar locked on -- a clear sign of trouble. The next message was entirely unambiguous: several rounds of artillery fire from an Iraqi emplacement near the Saddam Dam. Though they were not hit, the American pilots followed standing orders and answered in kind, dropping four cluster bombs on the firing battery. The fighters, three F-16s and one F-4G, then returned to Incirlik air base in Turkey...