Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...casual eye, Northrop Corp.'s brand-new X-21A airplane has the look of an already obsolescent bomber. It is a familiar twin-jet Douglas B66 fitted out with oversize, swept-back wings. But a close look shows a more significant change. There are hundreds of paper-thin slots slicing through the wings' metal skin. And those slots, if the calculations of Northrop's Norair Division scientists prove correct, may well revolutionize the aircraft industry...
Civilian Dictation. About the same time, another McNamara decision-his refusal to speed production of the RS-70 supersonic reconnaissance bomber-came under fire on the House floor. Declared Illinois' Leslie Arends, ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee: "We have in fact, if not in name, a single chief of staff in Secretary of Defense McNamara. While we provided in the Unification Act for civilian control of our armed forces-and it is essential to our form of government that we have such control-we never for a moment thought that civilian control would become civilian dictation...
...through a general-delivery box in Chicago. Most of them returned to Birmingham only once, for a single day in March. The next month came the invasion. According to Mansfield, the four volunteered to replace exhausted Cuban pilots during the Bay of Pigs struggle, and were killed when their bomber was shot down by Cuban T-33 jets...
...repeated U.S. assurances of its long-term strategic commitment to Europe, and heedless of the fact that 400,000 G.I.s on the Continent are a permanent U.S. hostage to Europe's security. Yet neither France's embryonic force de frappe nor Britain's near-obsolete V-bomber strike force carries sufficient punch to deter, let alone defeat, an aggressor...
...McNamara on the necessity for a "unified NATO command," which is today U.S. command. Enticing as this theory may sound, it does not quite square with the final outcome of the Skybolt affair. For the Polaris agreement provides the British with a better weapons system than the Skybolt-Vulcan bomber arrangement would have given her. If Kennedy had been determined to deprive England of its nuclear capability he could have refused Macmillan's demands completely...