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...Navy is gradually leaking information about missiles to be launched under water. In Missiles and Rockets, an article by Erik Bergaust gives intriguing details about the Polaris, an IRBM (Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile) that the Navy is developing with the help of the Army's famous missile center at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville...
According to Bergaust, the Polaris will be a rather fat missile 40 ft.-50 ft. long and about 8 ft. in diameter. Its range will be more than 800 miles, and it will carry a nuclear warhead. Instead of liquid fuels, which the Navy considers too dangerous and undependable to use in a submarine, the Polaris will have a solid propellant. It may be launched directly out of a special compartment in the submarine, or it may be released and allowed to float upward before its main motor ignites. Perhaps the submarine will have raised some sort of antenna above...
From Erik Bergaust, editor of Missiles and Rockets magazine, came word that two months prior to Charlie Wilson's order the Army had in fact fired the Jupiter. Reported Editor Bergaust: the "Jupiter C," a three-stage rocket test device, whooshed from its Florida launching site in September, streaked an astounding 3,300 miles, reaching an altitude of 680 miles at 15,000 m.p.h.-higher and faster and possibly farther than any missile has ever before flown. Pentagon brass studiously avoided comment about Bergaust's disclosure...
...some suspect, Bergaust was the happy recipient of an Army leak, it was timely, for at week's end the Air Force was checking weather reports preparatory to launching its own IRBM, the Thor...