Word: antisub
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...Nothing galvanizes politicians like a new military threat, however. The antisecession law appears to have muted objections to the U.S. arms deal. Taiwan should eventually be able to augment its tiny submarine fleet, and add more Patriot antimissile batteries and antisub aircraft. The hardware won't be enough to win an arms race, but it sends a signal that Taiwan is prepared to stand up for itself...
...American ship to test the skill and technique of the helmsmen. The Russians also try to ruin maneuvers between the U.S. and its allies. In the Sea of Japan last year, Soviet warships scraped the U.S. destroyer Walker twice in an obvious attempt to break up a joint antisub exercise between U.S. and Japanese fleets. "Seafaring nations for centuries have allowed ships to proceed peacefully on the high seas," says Vice Admiral William I. Martin, commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet. "This is quite new?to barge in on a formation...
...tons of TNT. Compared with Jupiter's 1,500-mile reach, the current Polaris missiles have a range of 1,380 to 1,725 miles, and before long the subs will get A-3 models with a 2,875-mile range. Though Moscow is hard at work on antisub devices, U.S. experts see no evidence that the Russians have come up with an effective defense against the fleet of 41 Polaris subs that will be at sea by 1967. Both Turkey and Italy swiftly accepted the changeover. To provide berthing facilities for the subs, the U.S. hopes to expand...
Successful Maneuvers. Last August Burke and his aides launched Operation Unitas, an unprecedented, four-month, South American antisub exercise. A U.S. task force centered around the sub Odax rendezvoused first with the Venezuelan and Colombian fleets in the Caribbean, then maneuvered with Ecuador's navy, turned south and linked up simultaneously with the Peruvian and Chilean navies. Finally, it conducted a four-nation maneuver with Argentine, Uruguayan and Brazilian ships. The operation's longest air patrol, 11 hr. and 15 min., was flown by a Brazilian Neptune, which circled so aggressively over its sub-contact area that...
...using its almost limitless supply of nonflammable helium to keep the ships aloft, the U.S. began to concentrate on nonrigid blimps. With their flexible, rubberized skins, they seemed to ride through rough weather far more safely than their rigid predecessors. They became a valuable link in the chain of antisub and early-warning defense units that ring the U.S. coast...