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...Three engines burning furiously, an Air Force Atlas missile shot into the sky on a successful but limited (3,000 miles) test flight. It was the third fully powered (360,000-lb. thrust) flight for the 6,000-mile-plus ICBM. In preparation: a full-range shot, early this fall...
...missilemen are unlikely to go to such trouble for some time, though the news last week gave thrust to Bell stock on Wall Street. Trouble is that using liquid fluorine would mean redesigning present ICBM engines, which run well enough on more placid fuels...
Last week the Air Force was highly enthusiastic about this concept. The beauty of ablating materials is the lightness that they allow in a nose cone. A solid-fuel missile like the projected Air Force Minuteman ICBM (due in 1963) would be badly overloaded with a heavy copper nose. Now the Minuteman will reportedly get a sharper, ablative nose, as may later advanced versions of the liquid-fuel Atlas and Titan, thus returning advanced missilery to orthodox streamlining...
GUIDANCE SYSTEM for missiles that defies enemy jamming has been developed by American Bosch Arma Corp. for Titan ICBM, and company will adapt it for use in Atlas ICBM. Air Force calls system a "major breakthrough," is now planning to give sizable new Government contract to American Bosch...
MISSILE CONTRACTS to develop Air Force's solid-fuel Minuteman ICBM, with variable range of 500 to 5,500 miles (TIME, March 10), will go to Avco Manufacturing Corp. for nose cone, North American Aviation, Inc. for guidance system, Thiokol Chemical Corp. and Aerojet-General Corp. for engines...