Word: aire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monthly rate, but the overall number of aircraft to be produced in present U.S.A.F. programing is, we have been told, substantially unchanged. Further, no money has been appropriated beyond fiscal 1960 for any military products. We are of the firm opinion, based on the best knowledge available, that the Air Force is programing the F-105 through fiscal year 1961 and beyond...
After the meeting, McElroy told newsmen that the Air Force and Navy would each be cut by 5,000 men next year. Almost casually, he raised the NATO-jarring prospect of eventual reduction of the U.S.'s 650,000-man forces overseas. "It is possible over a period of time that other NATO countries will increase their contributions of strength, and that they may come to the conclusion that it might be to their own advantage that we deploy forces elsewhere." But such a decision, McElroy indicated happily, would fall in some future budget maker...
...subsonic air-breathing missile was a sound concept before physicists found out how to fit a nuclear warhead into a ballistic missile. Had the Air Force's air-breathing Snark been pushed to completion on its original schedule three years ago, it could have filled a gap in U.S. air strength. By the time the first (and only) Snark wing was put into operation this year in Maine, Soviet defenses had more than caught up with it. Counting total development costs ($740 million), the Snark is one of the most costly, wings ever formed...
...backing of a powerful segment of industry, no branch willingly gives up a promising weapon in favor of a similar one developed by a competitor. The Army's attempt to hold a place in space resulted in the Pentagon compromise to manufacture both the Jupiter (Army) and Thor (Air Force) intermediate-range ballistic-missile systems. Today's snowballing result is a duplication in production facilities, costly ground-handling equipment and training, as Jupiters are being installed in Italy and Turkey while Thors go to Great Britain. In second-generation, solid-pro-pellant missiles, the Navy's submarine...
...hard-based Air Force Titan ICBM, originally conceived as a back-up weapon in case of the failure of Atlas, offers little advantage now that Atlas is operational. The Titans programed for U.S. missile defense could be replaced by a beefed-up Atlas production schedule at an immediate saving of $400 million...