Valor: “Valor at its Highest”
Two young lieutenants laid their lives on the line for a wounded comrade.
June 1989
Vol. 72, No. 6
Maybe We Need a Sputnik
When the Soviet Union put Sputnik I, the first artificial earth satellite, into orbit in 1957, Americans were initially shocked, then scared, and finally stirred to action. Passing overhead, Sputnik served notice that oceans and geographic isolation would not longer...
Vision of Joint STARS
In test flights, the airborne radar scanned a broad sweep around Cocoa Beach and picked out cars movin
Electronics in a Pinch
Despite the budget setbacks, there is steady if unspectacular progress in many programs.
Slam ‘Em and Jam ‘Em
Over hostile territory, it's essential to destroy, disrupt, or degrade the enemy radar.
Beyond Electronics
The Air Force is edging toward the photonic future along three parallel paths.
Ripe Technologies
Some of these can deliver benefits in the next decade. Others promise dramatic new capabilities after
Enlisted Pilots
Over the years, the air arm produced some 3,000 of them, and they have flown virtually all types of ai
The Twenty-Two Most Critical Technologies
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