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...Force Base in Thailand early this week, cock their delta-shaped wings forward like alighting eagles, then touch down with needle-nosed insouciance among the warplanes that almost daily raid North Viet Nam. They are the first combat-bound models of the controversial F-111 swing-wing fighter-bomber (originally, the TFX), contracted for six years ago under Robert McNamara to serve both the Air Force and the Navy. Takhli's new planes will be F-111 As, the Air Force model, which will be tested in bombing runs over North Viet...
...Though the Air Force is pleased with its version of the sweep-wing fighter-bomber, the Navy still considers too heavy for aircraft carriers...
...MANNED BOMBERS. McNamara had no use for them, felt strategic missiles were less vulnerable and more efficient. Clifford has said that "my inclination, which is a visceral one, is to say categorically yes" to developing a new bomber. The fact that the Strategic Air Command has now canceled B-52 airborne alert flights-simulated runs on Communist targets, with nuclear bombs aboard-in the wake of the Greenland crash in which four hydrogen bombs were lost, could, however, bring the usefulness of a new manned bomber into question...
Carrier v. Bomber. Because the Russians consider the U.S.'s seaborne air-power to be a major threat in case of all-out war, one of their favorite tricks is to harass and probe U.S. carriers. Soviet destroyers and trawlers try to break a carrier's screen of protective smaller ships in order to force the flattop to change course while launching or landing aircraft and thus maybe dump a few planes into the sea. In the air, bombers of the Soviet navy^s 750-plane, land-based air force continually test to see how close they can approach...
Trying to discourage an all-out attack, U.S. warplanes pummeled the foggy hills around Khe Sanh in the most concentrated bombing campaign of the war. More than 7,500 fighter-bomber sorties and 100 B-52 strikes have unloaded at least 120 million pounds of bombs around the besieged bases in the past three weeks-more explosive force than the two A-bombs dropped on Japan. They triggered more than 2,000 secondary explosions, signifying direct hits on ammunition or fuel dumps. But North Vietnamese artillery, mortars and rockets still peppered Khe Sanh at a rate of at least...