Switching on radar, or an anti-aircraft gun firing a single salvo, now brings down a hail of bombs on anything deemed threatening, from command bunkers to radar stations, and even anti-ship missiles.

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The U.S. gives Egypt hundreds of millions of dollars in additional military aid by offering it excess military equipment, such as radar systems, aircraft, and command vehicles.

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He cites the 1991 visit of an American inspection team to the Pechora radar in the Arctic Circle, when inspectors learned that the radar was passing along target-tracking information to a central command.

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The crew of the Colorado, after some internal scuffles for command, decides to take control of the island of Sainte Marina, where there is a NATO radar installation.

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