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...drill instructor said. That's sort of a joke. Well, the M-16 is a lot easier to handle than the Ml, and it can be used after dark. It's got a night scope that can pick up targets a mile away using infra-red light. And you should see what we have instead of the old bazooka. First there's the 90-mm. recoilless rifle with a "starlight" scope for enhanced visibility and a shaped charge that can penetrate all known Soviet armor. For the heaviest tanks, we have the Dragon antitank missile...
...needing attention. Beale supervises a staff of 1 conservator scientist, 6 professional conservators, an administrative assistant and 6 apprentices or interns. Science serves Art in the four laboratories on the fourth floor of the Fogg. In rooms filled with jars of chemicals and glues, equipped with machines like an infra-red spectrophotometer, Beale's crew works to preserve the Fogg's treasures...
...eight French-built Mystère fighters, which the Israelis had equipped with U.S. jet engines. A more serious complaint comes from Raytheon Co., which accuses the Israelis of scavenging an air-to-air missile called Shafrir out of Raytheon's Sidewinder-specifically, by stealing Sidewinder's infra-red guidance system -and then selling it to Chile...
Much work remained before the treasure could actually be read. The parchment was fragile and wafer-thin (.0039 in.), and the top edge had disintegrated into a fudgelike mass. Yadin's team froze the scroll to help unpeel it and used infra-red and reverse photography to reconstruct damaged portions...
...today to create the new products of tomorrow. With his encouragement, his companies developed the laser, communications satellites and a dizzying array of esoteric weaponry. As one senior Pentagon intelligence officer puts it, "He was something of a genius in understanding far-out concepts of electro-optical systems, infra-red sensors and other sophisticated gear from undersea to outer space...