Word: interceptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Douglas' DC-8 in the European long-haul market. Italy's Fiat and two German firms displayed plans for a new vertical takeoff reconnaissance craft, the VAK 191. Even the small European countries offered advanced products, such as the Swedish supersonic Saab-35 Draken interceptor and the Dutch Fokker F.28 twio-jet airliner built with German, English and North Irish collaboration...
...recently agreed to buy 70 F-5 jet fighters from Northrop Corp. for $47 million; the planes were originally developed for distribution to U.S. allies under military-assistance pacts. Canada, on the verge of ordering 200 F-5s, is debating whether to switch to the costlier McDonnell F4, whose interceptor model is the hottest in the U.S. inventory, or to the Douglas A-4E Skyhawk, which can land on a carrier. Australia has decided to buy ten Lockheed P-3 Orion antisubmarine planes. West Germany, whose purchases account for nearly half of U.S. foreign arms sales so far, has agreed...
...successor to the U2, the slow-speed (500 m.p.h.) reconnaissance plane that flew into so much trouble over Russia. But last week the A11 was publicly shown and flown. And the experts quickly reconsidered their judgment. From spearlike nose to flaring, double-delta wing, the A11 is all interceptor, all meanness and muscle...
...maiden public flight the A11 clearly demonstrated the agility and speed that will be the hallmark of to morrow's interceptor. But even more to the point, the A-11's role as a fighter plane was obvious to those who inspected it on the ground. There were bomb-bay doors in the craft's belly that hid a covey of four-vaned air-to-air AIM (Air Intercept Missile) missiles...
...silence any further doubt about the A-11's role, the Air Force gave out a brief performance profile of the A11 as interceptor: the two-man (pilot and fire-control officer) plane, for example, can fly from Minneapolis to the northern tip of Hudson's Bay in an hour, and still have enough fuel to return to base. On target, the A11 is all killer, can make a second pass at an enemy bomber in one-fourth the time needed by a more maneuverable but slower F-106. Plans are now to use the plane...