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...Minutes after it had surfaced off California's Point Mugu. the Navy's conventionally powered submarine Grayback launched a stubby-winged turbojet missile from its deck, quietly slipped back under the waves. With chase and control planes following closely. Chance Vought's Regulus II flew a guided, circuitous 200-mile route to Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, where because of a landing-gear malfunction, it burned up on landing. But the landing was a technicality : the business version of Regulus II will pack a nuclear warhead on a 1,000-mile range, will give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Missile Week | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison last week announced the names of 23 U. S. warboats new-built and building. Battleships: Iowa and New Jersey. Cruisers: Cleveland and Columbia. Seaplane tenders: Casco and Mackinac. Submarines: Marlin, Grayling, Grenadier, Gudgeon, Mackerel, Gar, Grampus, Grayback. Repair ship: Vulcan. Destroyers (for Navy heroes): Woolsey, Ludlow, Wilkes, Nicholson, Ericsson, Ingraham, Edison (for Thomas Alva, the Acting Secretary's father), Swanson (for his predecessor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Names | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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