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...Under this approach, the U.S. could agree to scrap ten of its Polaris submarines, while the Russians would be permitted to build up their fleet to parity with the U.S. at 31 boats. The U.S. would phase out all of its B-52s and B-58s while building enough FB-111s, the strategic fighter-bomber version of the swing-wing F-111, to match the Soviet TU-95s in numbers. The U.S. would abandon Safeguard ABMs, the Russians would dismantle or neutralize the Galosh network and the Tallinn Line. Both sides would agree not to install operational MIRVs...
Intelligence Gap. The AMSA concept took a long time to develop and was further delayed by two big Ms-money and McNamara. The former Defense Secretary could never be persuaded of AMSA's immediate merit. He argued that the current B-52s and the troublefraught new FB-llls could be modified with advance defense-penetration devices that would make them effective into the mid-70s. Further, he was reluctant to commit the nation to a vast defense expenditure (210 FB-llls would cost about $1.5 billion, 210 AMSAs would cost $8.1 billion) in view of the gap between development...
...revolutionary 1,650-m.p.h. whiz-bang won its first formal production contract. The Air Force, which is handling all F-111 procurement, gave General Dynamics an order for 493 planes to be delivered by 1970. Of the total, the Air Force will take 395 of its F-111A and FB-111 versions. The Navy, which is still unsatisfied with its model, the F-111B, will take only 24. Britain, with an order for 50, and Australia (24) account for the rest. Total value of the contract, which does not cover engines, weaponry and some electronics...
...Bill Calhoun (4) Dartmouth E Ron Gervase (4) Cornell T Steve Diamond (4) Harvard T Reeve Vanneman (5) Cornell G George McSweeney (5) Cornell G Bill Sjogren (5) Dartmouth C Chuck Matuszak (4) Dartmouth QB Mickey Beard (5) Dartmouth HB Bobby Leo (5) Harvard HB Pete Larson (5) Cornell FB Pete Walton (6) Dartmouth Placekicker Bill Hay (5) Dartmouth
Secretary McNamara says that the cost of developing the FB-111 would be a fraction of the $1.5 billion it would take to work up a totally new long-range bomber. The Air Force and its backers in Congress reply that a completely new "advanced, manned strategic aircraft" is needed for the mid-1970s, deride the FB-111 as an interim bomber that would not be even so effective as advanced versions of the B-52. The fight over the TFX, like the plane itself, seems to be entering a new phase...