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Show THEY PLOT TO is at Itmidnight miles north of "Destroy units in the selected area have no inkling of the raid. It is only after ground radar stations have spotted the invaders that the "trusted agent" lets the defenders know that the inbound planes are fakers. This is to prevent ac tual rockets or missiles from being fired. and eight minutesr past just Goose Bay, Lab- New rador, 1,150 York City. The temperature is below freezing. Several inches of . noccQvertheigroundrr :r:r the UoSo at the end Instead se's B-5- 2oxyiMM3M3 By JAMES H. WINCHESTER x dars some 500 miles northwest of Montre- - Mrfcgreeiir "Saga Zero Three. You can depart." . Major Stewart a giant of a Texan frame crowds ; his; cock- whose Tthe hrottlesr-release- s and starts the plane rolling. ' ENE MY nd the-brake- it-?p1- ishes STA LANN1 NG inute4aterfnother-B-57riloted-b- y follows MaStewart into the clear, cold air of the Capt. . r ' ' - J ; :;- f feet, flying northwest. : , - jn iiiiMMiHgiminiMi SamueWten-Dyker-J- iv jor night In a few minutes, both are at ,. . I ..r--- " 1 -- -- j PaS3!M: M .7?- ji m ! t i Aheaid landbehind them,uJLflying dif r4 ferent routes and altitudes'in a fanlike pattern, are 10 other jets. Their mission: to penetrate "the air defenses of Canada and the United States and "bomb" the Pittsburgh, N.Y Air Force Base, one of America's prime military targets. The 24 pilots and electronic experts making this sweep out' of the Arctic are members of a small, elite group of Air Force specialists known as the "friendly enemy." They spend all their working hours thinking and acting like Russians. Assigned to two Defense Systems Evaluation Squadrons one at Newburgh, N.Y., the other at Ogden, Utah their job is trying to outguess and outperform the complex warning and interception system of North American the joint Canadian-U.- S Command ( NORAD ) . Flying around the clock, in all kinds of just a weather, and at altitudes few hundred feet to 60,000 feet and more, they probe for weaknesses that would be fatal should the Cold War turn hot. "We're the bad guys against the good guys," says Major Stewart. "Everything is so realistic that we get the feeling on a mission that we really are the enemy. We like to win. Unfortunately, we seldom do. It's no fun being a professional loser. But when we win, "the nation loses." Planning these attacks is the job of a seven-ma- n group at NORAD headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. They act as an "enemy general staff" and are known to their colleagues . as "the Russians in the blue suits." One copy of their plans, marked "Secret," goes to the unit selected to make the mission. Another goes to a liaison officer, known as a "trusted agent," in the ground control, center of the area to be penetrated. Radar stations, interceptor squadrons, -Ai- r-Defense t)f-fro- These Air Force specialists are loyal Americans, but as "Russians in blue suits" they probe our air defenses for weaknesses that could be fatal in a real attack Family Weekly, June U, 196h m strike at Pittsburgh. Instantly, from , Northern deep inside a granite mountain at Trout Lake, Ontario, jets of the Royal Canadian , officer. 220-pou- ectronicrsi High-flyin- light. Behind him, in tandem, is First Lt. Sal Zaccagnino, - e "hits" would have been made. Even so, no holds are barred in these realistic attacks. g Major Stewart and Captain Van Dyke are first spotted by ground ra- long run-wa- y 7 is a droop-nose- d jet bomber, and jammed into the" pilot's seat is pressure-suite- d Maj. Bill Stewart. The glow from his shielded instrument lights bathes: his PnispH of-Guu- missile-defens- Air Force and Bomarc missile squadrons computers be; are alerted, and high-spee- d -gin plotting the peed, numbersand route of the "enemy" planes on a huge plastic wall map. Now, reports also are coming in on the other sweeping, southward in a arc, Within three minntes, scores of RCAF supersonic jet interceptors are screaming skyward to.meet Bomarc missiles, themHiiid nuclear-tippe- d with an effective range of 400 miles, rise to firing position at many bases. i -- 500-mile-wi- B-5- 7s F-1- de 01 , wits THirsTARTSgigaiitieHttlef the electro- (EWOs) in the In today's air battles, interceptor, pilots are little more than passengers monitoring instruments; their planes are directed from the ground. Once they: near nic-warfare B-57- officers s. their target, their own airborne jadar takes over, latches onto the approaching -- bomber, and aims and fires nuclear-tippe- d rockets automatically. Similarly, defending Bomarc missiles are fed radar information from the ground direction center, then aimed and fired automatically. It's the job of Lieutenant Zaccagnino and the1 other EWOs to counteract these ground and airborne attacks by confusing their radars and radios and the men trying to interpret the data. One weapon is small strips of aluminum foil called chaff. Each attacking plane carries more than 1,000 pounds of it in wing-po- d tanks, from where it can be released in desired quantities by the E WO. For the interpreter at the radarscope on the job to ground, it's a pick out the real target from the hundreds of chaff --caused blips. But the EWO's chief weapons are his radio, radar, electronic jammers, and other mysterious "black boxes" more than a ton of them, mostly marked "Top Secret." Typically, Lieutenant Zaccagnino has started jamming the ground radars long before the defending RCAF fighters are within range. As a result, the radarscopes on the ground, are filled with bewildering arrays of white lines that make it hard some- needle-in-a-haysta- ck |