Like a dog with a bone, he comes panting back, drops bone at Nates' feet
"Joint STARS Joint Surveillance & Target Attack Radar System (US, mounted in
Boeing/Grumman E-8 airframe)
Ref: Air International (URL:http://www.airinternational.com/)"
A piccy and more details.
http://www.nasog.net/aircraft/pa/Boeing_Northrop_Grumman_E8_Joint_STARS.htm"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nate and Jane Dorward" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "British-Poets List" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 16 August 2000 20:26
Subject: Shapcott query
> ...more queries: this is in "Phrase Book" (1992), in a collage of
> media/military wartime jargon:
>
> ...yes the pilots say
> yes they have caught it through the Side-Looking
>
> Airborne Radar, and through the J-Stars.
>
>
> Wanted to know about that last phrase. A websearch only reveals that J-Star
> is a company that makes grain silos & dairy farm equipment....hardly
> helpful.
>
> all best --N
>
>
> Nate & Jane Dorward
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