July 1988

On patrol off the southern coast of Florida, an E-3 AWACS may be tracking 300 or more aircraft with its radar. Some of these are almost surely drug smugglers. Most of the cocaine entering the United States comes in through...

Emphasis has shifted in military electronics. The big effort now is systems for the AirLand Battle, an

It would be easy to solve the interoperability problem in base-level communications if USAF could star

A dozen science and technology programs, now cooking in the laboratories, will bound USAF capabilities

Birds change the shape of their wings in flight. Now, aircraft designers have come up with the Mission

Survivability in the 1990s will boil down to five factors—but the main one is speed. Slow ducks will b

In 1945, the military helicopter was still a novelty, and rescue methods were primitive by today's sta

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