Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, the Bolivian Fokker aircraft that had escorted the Blackhawks on the raid had got stuck on the target site's swampy runway. The Fokker finally arrived at 7 p.m., almost seven hours late. By then the journalists' patience had run thin, and they voted to return to La Paz without touring the newly seized site...
Unlike most military-aircraft makers, Continental RPVS is happy to see its planes go down in flames. Since 1981 the Barstow, Calif., company has been building radio-controlled replicas of fighter jets and selling them to U.S. military bases for target practice. Continental's remotely piloted vehicles bear the authentic markings of, say, a Soviet MiG-27 but are only one-fifth or one-seventh its size. As the RPVs fly through flak from antiaircraft guns, onboard electronic devices record the hits and near misses and send the information to a computer on the ground...
...resumption of shuttle flights, moreover, will be delayed into 1988. NASA conceded that its optimistic target date of July 1987 will not be met because the redesign of the boosters is proving more complicated than expected. Explained John Thomas, manager of the rocket-design team: "With so much at stake, we're going to take all the time that's required...
...worth of operational and maintenance support, including high-tech electronic detection equipment on loan to the Bahamian government as part of "Operation Bat." This was a three-year-old effort to intercept drug smugglers on ships and in aircraft. U.S. military maneuvers in the Caribbean are often used to target suspected drug smugglers, tracking them until civilian police or the Coast Guard can make an arrest. In one such sweep, the 1985 "Hat Trick I" operation, some $27 million worth of drugs was confiscated...
...always seem to be shopping around for a major retailer. In the past two years they have bought large blocks of stock in May Department Stores and two pharmacy chains, Jack Eckerd and Revco. In each case the Hafts' move drove up the price of the stock in the target company, and they sold their shares at hefty profits...