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...defense against a number of different weapons systems. "This mixed-force capability is being planned or provided through the employment of the large ICBM installations hardened against nuclear attack, the smaller mobile Minuteman ICBM, the elusive Polaris fleet ballistic missile system, and the continuing capability of our strategic bomber force, including the limited development of an advanced version in the B70 bomber...
...spite of what Premier Khrushchev says, the Soviet Union is still building bombers. The Soviet air force is currently introducing into service a supersonic bomber so new that NATO has not got round to assigning it a code name. A new delta-wing supersonic bomber, to which NATO recently gave the code name Bounder, appears to match the U.S.'s 6-58 Hustler; the new plane is presumed to be even more advanced. Soviet forces have been energetically improving and expanding far northern airbases from the Kola Peninsula near Scandinavia to the Chukotski Peninsula opposite Alaska. Crews of some...
...prove it, an eight-jet B-52G lifted off from Florida's Eglin Air Force Base last week with a 43-ft. Hound Dog slung under each wing. Air Force Captain Jay L. McDonald, 36, piloted the bomber over Cincinnati, Lake Superior, Hudson Bay and to the North Pole; then he wheeled it back all the way to Florida and unleashed one of the Hound Dogs. Still fully operative after the rigors of a combat-type, 10,800-mile, 22-hour plane flight, the missile streaked off on a northern course at close to Mach 2 speed. Then...
...Picked up a Pratt & Whitney J52 jet engine that had been under low-priority development for planes for two years, used it to power Hound Dog, which is like a pilotless bomber...
...truck trailers. And that is precisely what the U.S., but not Britain, can develop in time. The solid-fueled Polaris is well ahead of schedule, will be ready by 1961. Skybolt will take longer, is scheduled for 1965. But when it comes into the armory, any standard subsonic jet bomber, either British or U.S., becomes a 600-m.p.h. missile platform launching nuclear rockets at targets 1,000 miles away...