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...driven T-28s, bases in South Viet Nam and elsewhere supplied U.S.-manned F-105 Thunderchiefs-one of the hottest, meanest items in the U.S. Air Force inventory, capable of lifting twenty-six 565-lb. bombs, almost twice the payload of a World War II B17. Of late, F-105s have been seen taking off from the sprawling airbase at Danang, South Viet Nam, at least half of them carrying bombs. There has been no complex strategy to the missions. When a Communist target offers itself, a strike is called...
...plane. Next to him in the copilot's seat was General Walter C. Sweeney Jr., commander of the U.S. Tactical Air Command-aboard to direct the massive protective operation. In the air, each of the three 707s was picked up by a swarm of highflying jet F-105s armed with "Catling" guns able to fire 6,000 shots a minute, F-100s with rockets and cannons, F-4Cs with the deadly Sidewinder missile, F-104s and Navy F-4Bs with Sidewinders and cannon, and F-101s, F-102s and F-106s with Falcon air-to-air rockets...
...dropped 750-lb. bombs that disintegrated a target supply depot. A dozen F-100 Super Sabres scorched the earth with napalm. A Falcon rocket burst from an F106 Delta Dart, sent a drone aircraft to the ground in blazing bits. As a Tactical Air Command flight of F-105s sped overhead, a simulated nuclear bomb was exploded in a miniature fireball and nonradioactive mushroom cloud. As the waves of noise, heat and blast rolled across Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, Commander in Chief John Kennedy grinned from a rocking chair. The U.S. Air Force was putting...
...able to fly anywhere in the world within five hours and to lay as many as 100 small A-bombs on target. A couple of Air Force consolations: the budget gives the go-ahead on increased construction of KC-135 jet tankers, authorizes the purchase of 220 more F-105s for tactical nuclear missions. The Air Force schedules of Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 budget would surely come in for the most criticism...
This is a light, mobile, dependable weapon with a rapid rate of fire (10-15 rounds a minute). It was the most used artillery weapon of World War II, can lob its shells as far as 12,500 yards. A U.S. infantry division has 54 105s...