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...turboprop Electra. In hot race, it won Navy's nod to be prime land-based antisubmarine plane in jet age. Insiders expect Navy to buy some 100 Electras for about $4,000,000 each over next few years, figure Navy will eventually replace all its 500 Lockheed Neptune antisub fighters with Electras...
Helicopter Altimeter. A microwave radar altimeter that can be attached to the automatic pilot of a helicopter and keep it hovering in one place indefinitely was announced by Sylvania Electric. Developed for use in Navy rescue and antisub operations, the device will also be available to commercial helicopters...
...Very soon, new Soviet boats will have missile capacity; Central Intelligence Agency Chief Allen Dulles estimates that ten missile-carrying subs could destroy 1,600 sq. mi. of the U.S. seaboard's industrial complex unless anti-submarine defenses stop them. Admiral Thach's job: to renovate an antisub screen that has become rusty with inadequate equipment, antiquated tactics and too much Navy attention to supercarriers...
...Delaware. The new giant is the 5,500-ton U.S.S. Norfolk. Only slightly smaller than the Navy's Juneau class antiaircraft cruisers,* the Norfolk is 54O-ft. long, will carry a main battery of dual-purpose guns (probably five-inch), and a hull crammed with the latest antisub detectors...
...peacetime concept: a coordinated arms program. For a start, Canada has plans to manufacture U.S.-type planes for both the R.C.A.F. and the U.S. Air Force. If that works out, the idea can be extended to guns (which both would make), tanks (U.S.-made), patrol craft and antisub boats (Canada-made...