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...Then, under the glare of TV lights, Diefenbaker announced a 180° shift in the course of Canada's air-defense planning. The R.C.A.F. will gradually eliminate the nine jet squadrons that now guard the continent's northern frontier, replace them with radar-guided Bomarc missiles built in the U.S. Into the discard: Canada's pride and joy, the big, 1,500-m.p.h. Avro CF-105 Arrow interceptor, which cost $303 million to develop, has been in flight-test for six months...
...into orbit, supplies the propellant for a whole family of missiles. This week word leaked that Thiokol is the hottest candidate for the whopping contracts to produce the propulsion systems for the Army's Pershing missile (TIME, April 7) and the Air Force's Bomarc, which will be converted from liquid to solid fuel...
...missile power equation, the offensive is so far ahead of the defensive that antiaircraft and anti-missile systems can hardly expect to achieve more than 25% effectiveness. The U.S. is nonetheless now developing 25 defensive missiles, with prime attention to the Air Force's area-defense Bomarc, a ramjet-powered interceptor that is designed to kill enemy aircraft 350 miles away and 60,000 ft. up. Boeing's Bomarc is just moving into full production. This week the Air Force will give Boeing a production-letter contract for about 100 Bomarcs and ground-support equipment. The Army...
...Boeing Bomarc ramjet guided missile, capable of flying three times the speed of sound, was also fired before noon...
WESTINGHOUSE COMEBACK is pushing 1957 sales near $2 billion (previous record: $1.6 billion in 1954). Net per common share will hit nearly $4 v. 10? in strike-troubled 1956. Consumer products sales are up, and defense contracts (Bomarc missile guidance systems, Polaris missile launchers) were unhurt by recent cutbacks...