Word: radars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lightning looks just like what it is: a low-slung, sharply angled killing machine. In the air, the advanced jet fighter is not only fast (sprinting up to twice the speed of sound) and agile (pitching and rolling like a Piper Cub) but almost invisible to enemy radar. If the Air Force has its way, the plane will rule the skies for the better part of the 21st century...
...Supreme Soviet in Moscow that Iraqi air defenses "failed in most cases." Furthermore, "we have weak spots in the antiaircraft system, and we need to examine them." The success of the American F-117A Stealth fighter, of course, throws into question the effectiveness of the whole $100 billion Soviet radar- and missile-defense network...
...stringent performance requirements. Both can cruise at supersonic speeds without having to resort to fuel-gulping afterburners, and they have twice the range of the F-15. The aircraft use advanced computerized controls and simplified screens to lighten the pilot's work load. Both candidates incorporate the latest radar-evading "stealthy" features. They pack as much as 20 times the data-processing power of an F-15 for spotting hostile aircraft before being seen themselves...
...expected them to usher in a new age of prosperity. But Britain's R. and D. capabilities were never sufficiently transferred to private industry. Because the British government was determined to remain a great power, it skewed research and development toward defense. Said Sir Henry Tizard, the father of radar and the government's chief science adviser between 1946 and 1952: "We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a great power, we shall soon cease to be a great nation." Britain, like the U.S. now, suffered from a profound neglect of its educational system...
...down, though Washington had been expecting to lose as many as 200. After 36 of his aircraft were destroyed in combat, Saddam sent most of his best planes to sanctuary in Iran and grounded the rest of the air force. Allied electronic jamming and antiradiation missiles put Iraq's radar tracking systems out of operation. Iraqi missiles and antiaircraft guns could then only be fired blind. While they filled the sky with fire, they presented little threat to allied bombers...