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...would also be a threat to Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who has 45 Vampires and the men to fly them. Castro has jailed so many Cuban air force pilots as "war criminals'' that he cannot get his present fighter force (two P-51s, twelve P-47s and 17 Sea Furies) off the ground. The accepted method of combatting the clandestine flights from Florida is to send out cops in squad cars to race along the highways to try to find the planes when they land...
...establish its right to fly the corridors at any altitude it deems necessary; in the event of another Berlin blockade, the Air Force will certainly use the huge C-130s for long-distance hauls, which would require higher altitudes than the short prop hauls made by piston-driven C-47s, C-119s and C-548. The Chiefs got President Eisenhower's approval, sent the order, waited for the reaction...
...General Thomas White. Navy's Admiral Arleigh Burke. Army's General Maxwell Taylor and Marine Corps' General Randolph Pate-backed up the statement on general points, expressed budget regrets that were relatively mild; the Air Force would have liked more money to replace obsolescent B-47s faster, the Navy more for ship replacement, the Army would have liked to modernize its weapons faster, the Marines regretted a manpower cut from...
...bombers. So the Administration is partially leapfrogging the Atlas-Titan generation. During the early 1960s the U.S. will continue to rely for much of its retaliatory power on SAC's manned bombers. Meanwhile, SAC will be kept updated, with B-58s and B-70s gradually replacing B-47s...
...consists of about 1,500 jets and turboprops. Most of this force is shortrange, but the U.S.S.R. has developed inflight refueling techniques that provide enough range to make round-trip missions to the U.S. And though their Bison and Badger bombers are inferior to the U.S.'s B-47s and B-52s (and Russian airplane maintenance and crew-training are low grade), the criterion of a good bomber is not how well it stacks up against the other fellow's in design or in direct combat, but whether or not it can perform its mission. The Russian bomber...