Word: 47s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commander Thomas Power says, he is certain that 90% of the targets would get plastered by U.S. missiles. The mix of which Power talks includes 554 ICBMs, 176 submarine-launched Polaris Al and A2 solid-fueled missiles (90% reliable in tests), 630 B-52 bombers and 720 B-47s. In "cross-targeting," as many as six missiles may be trained on a single target, with a wave of "follow-on" bombers ready to mop up if anything goes wrong. Says Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay: "If kiddie cars will do the job, we will use them...
...with the charge that U.S. pilots had airlifted Moroccan troops to the border. Despite U.S. official denials, the accusation seemed at least partially accurate. Four days before the fighting broke put, pilots of the U.S. Air Force training mission in Morocco ferried troops in six C-119s and C-47s to Marrakech, 300 miles from the frontier. Belatedly realizing that a border war was in the making, the U.S. hastily ended the operation...
...just a big, slick, did-you-ever-see-such-a-crazy-tractor romance in which Jimmy Stewart fell in love with a $3,000,000 airplane and took off for Cloud Nine. Now Hollywood has, in effect, remade the movie with glittering new hardware (B-52s instead of B-47s) and a dull old theme: "Will SACcess spoil Rock Hudson?" Rock is an Air Force colonel assigned to command a SAC Wing that has just flunked its Operational Readiness Inspection. His job is to make the Wing straighten up and fly right, and he works brutally hard...
...operate off short runways, a French-designed heavy helicopter. But the most important joint project in the works was the Europa Panzer, a medium tank; when first conceived, the idea was that it would replace the West German Bundeswehr's 2,000 out-of-date U.S. M-47s and M-48s, give the French army a fast, quick-firing, maneuverable weapon...
...central Air Force fear in the death of Skybolt is its impact on the future of the Strategic Air Command's bombers. The B-47s are already being phased out. When they are gone, only the B-52 will remain in large numbers. The Air Force has sought development of a supersonic B-70, and Congress has authorized funds for a modified version (the RS-70), but so far the Administration has refused to spend much of the money. With Skybolt -which could presumably slice effectively through antiaircraft defenses-the Air Force expected to keep its B-52 force...