Word: radars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle involves some powerful protagonists in the international defense industry. Championing the proposed deal is former U.S. Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, now Carlyle's vice chairman, who argues that the LTV missile operation is a natural complement to Thomson-CSF's heavy involvement in communications, radar and guidance systems. Carlucci claims that LTV will benefit from the strength of Thomson-CSF, and to prove his point he cites opposition to the sale by French missilemakers Aerospatiale and Matra. "The U.S. cannot escape the trend toward greater internationalization of the Western defense industry," he says...
PEOPLE IN PARTS OF NEVADA AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HAVE noticed the loud sonic booms and strange pulsing noises for months. Seismologists at Caltech have been picking up echoes of extremely fast overflights heading east from Los Angeles. Now Royal Air Force radar technicians at the NATO base in Machrihanish, Scotland, have identified the cause of it all. Officially, the U.S. Air Force is mum. But insiders say Lockheed has been test-flying AURORA, the top-secret hypersonic U.S. spy plane, code-named "Senior Citizen," which can fly at speeds exceeding 4,000 m.p.h. That's about 90 min. from Washington...
That's what the four of us--John, Joanna, Kim and Dante-- went to find out. We stuffed the black Oldsmobile full of clothes, food, curiosity, a radar detector and a substantial dose of East Coast snobbery. We revved the engine, pumped up the tape deck and took off for points Southward...
...team checked out the forbidding terrain in 1990 and began hunting in earnest last November. Just six weeks ago, says Clapp, "we were ^ within a whisker of total failure." Then the party decided to examine Ash Shisar, a water hole with ruins of a primitive fort. Using ground-penetrating radar and sounding devices, the explorers discovered extensive ruins underneath...
...turning point came when Clapp remembered reading about a system called Space Imaging Radar carried on a space shuttle to peer underneath the deserts of Egypt and locate ancient riverbeds. In addition, satellites using optical sensing systems were able to record reflected near-infrared light that is invisible to the human eye. Scientists combined the data to produce digital images of 160-km-long (100-mile) tracts; these pictures were then manipulated by computers to bring out subtle details. Roads and rivers that were barely visible to explorers on the ground appeared in images captured from hundreds of kilometers...