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Leaping a Generation. Nagging the Air Force is a vast and worsening aircraft and missile obsolescence problem. Today the heavy-wallop weapons are the B-52 and B-47. Around the corner is a new generation: the B58 bomber, Atlas, Titan. But a few years beyond these, the Air Force sees a radically different weapons system of Minuteman solid-fuel missiles, ready for rapid launching from invulnerable underground nests (TIME, March 10). Under the pressure of the budget ceiling, Air Force brains are asking: Why sink most of our development and procurement funds over the next few years into...
...week at the U.S. Marine station at Quantico, Va., 175 of the nation's top military and civilian defense experts will take off coats and jackets, roll up their sleeves to wrestle with the big questions. Items: B58 costs $8,000,000, the projected B70 "chemical bomber" may cost as much as $20 million), where can cuts best be taken? One favored answer: in manpower, by cutting active forces, reserves and National Guard contingents. One offbeat item that could cut the budget to the tune of $10 billion...
...Force, whose chronic worry is that it may lose some of its jet runways through enemy action or political upsets, hopes to cut bigger pieces of the same cake. Some of its takeoff experts believe that B58 intermediate bombers (weight: 150,000 lbs.) and even enormous B-52 heavy bombers (weight: over 400,000 lbs.) can be blasted off trailers. If this proves true, bombers can be dispersed so widely on their trailers that even a heavy surprise attack will not destroy them...
...Fairchild's missile is a speedy, jet-engined vehicle with 5,000-mile range and a mission as unique as its name. Made of fiber glass, the Goose can be fitted with radar reflectors to make it resemble almost any craft including a B-52 Stratofortress or a B58 Hustler, thus decoy enemy defense away from the real bombers. The Goose will have a lightweight, 2,000-lb.-thrust J83 engine, also a Fairchild development. Fortnight ago the J83 passed its Air Force qualification test, and now the Goose is ready for a production contract that the Air Force...
CONVAIR ORDER for 47 supersonic B58 Hustler bombers, costing upwards of $470 million, is on the way. Hustler program to date: 77 planes...