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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find its way to the target, "you get a higher probability of kill," says Donald Hicks, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. "But you have to recognize that nothing is perfect." Such smart weapons are designed to cripple a radar dish, not destroy an entire missile site...
...Boeing 727 flying from Rome to Athens with 115 passengers and seven crew members aboard, had already begun its descent toward the Athens international airport. Twenty minutes before the plane's expected landing, as it flew at 15,000 ft. over Argos, a town near the ancient site of Mycenae, an explosion shook the aircraft. At first the pilot, Captain Richard Peterson, 56, a 30-year veteran, thought the problem was a broken window, though he later likened the thunderous sound to that of "a shotgun going off next to your ear." Said Passenger Jane Klingel, 25, from California...
With the recent construction towards Porter Square on the Red Line, a length of tunnel originally used to move trolley cars from storage yards to the main line has been blocked off, said Kathy Spiegelman, Harvard's associate director for urban planning and community affairs. Sole access to this site is from the Kennedy School of Government...
Less than an hour later, two A-7 attack planes took off from the Saratoga after Navy sensors detected radar emissions from the missile site at Surt. They flew to about 40 miles from the base and released their high-speed anti- radiation missiles (HARM). The missiles home in on radar waves and are designed to destroy the transmitter, not the missiles or launchers themselves. "We shot out the tires," said one Pentagon official. "We didn't need to fire a pistol through the windshield to take out the driver...
About four hours after the first strike on the Surt missile base, American sensors again detected radar from the site scanning the gulf. Weinberger later said he "would assume" that Soviet technicians helped the Libyans repair the base. American planes launched two more HARM missiles, and again the radar went dead. The final American strike occurred later that morning: a pair of fighter jets hit at least one Libyan vessel near Benghazi...