Word: radars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reports surfacing in Paris. Only the suppliers know the passwords, and unless they are keyed in, Iraqi guided missiles will not be able to reach their targets. Moreover, a Defense Ministry spokesman in Paris confirms that his country's warships carry transmitters that can jam French-built Iraqi radar systems and confuse the sensors on their Exocet missiles. But he concedes that battle-ready Western forces "definitely cannot jam all the weapons systems, because we have simply delivered too much weaponry to Iraq...
...their war with Iran, some Iraqi units might collapse. The U.S., Saudi and British air forces have a combined strength of more than 1,500 combat aircraft, enough to mount close to 2,000 bombing sorties a day against Iraqi targets. The initial attack would be led by radar-evading F-117A Stealth fighter-bombers and sea-based Tomahawk cruise missiles, attacking key Iraqi military and infrastructure facilities. In the second phase of the air campaign, hulking Air Force B-52s, F-111s and F-15Es would join Navy F/A-18s and A-6s in striking Iraqi ground installations, from water...
...Avenger was designed to carry a bomb load much farther than the Intruder, which can tote 10,000 lbs. over 650 miles. The new aircraft had been seen as ideal for delivering bombs deep into the Soviet Union after leaving its carrier. Its profile on radar screens was less than 20% that of the Intruder...
...consider Iraq's Sukhoi-24 long-range bombers an even greater threat than the Scud B missiles, which are notoriously inaccurate. Iraq is believed to have 25 of the advanced Soviet-made warplanes, which can make the round trip to Tel Aviv without refueling and which boast terrain-hugging radar. If even a single SU-24 slips through Israel's defenses, it can deliver a seven-ton payload with pinpoint accuracy. By comparison, each stripped-down Scud can pack only 662 lbs. of conventional explosives or 331 lbs. of chemical weapons...
...Force concludes. "It is astonishing that the EPA would lend its imprimatur on this report." The Pentagon's concern is understandable. There is hardly a unit of the modern military that does not depend on the heavy use of some kind of electronic ! equipment, from huge ground-based radar towers to the defense systems built into every warship and plane...