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...Tupolev). Three-man, twin-jet attack bomber (resembles Britain's Canberra). Speed, 530 m.p.h.; range, unknown; bombload, 6,500 Ibs.; armament, two nose-mounted 30-mm. cannon, two 20-mm. cannon in the tail. Beginning production...
...super-bomber, says the Air Force, must have a combat radius of 5,000 miles with a bombload of 10,000 lbs., should be able to hit 500 m.p.h. at 55,000 ft. It must carry guns and, perhaps, air-to-air guided missiles, too. But its principal defenses will be altitude and speed. Interceptors are faster than bombers, but if a bomber flies high enough and fast enough, a short-range interceptor has a hard time getting into range before its fuel is gone...
...ignored in the U.S. before the war, is revolutionizing U.S. metallurgy. Thanks to chemists, it is now being produced cheaply and plentifully, playing a big role in the war (e.g., in a four-motored bomber it saves enough in engine weight alone, as compared with aluminum, to increase the bombload-by 360 lb.). Among its many postwar possibilities, Haynes sees a magnesium grand piano that one husky man can lift by himself...