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...electronics, there are some gaps in NORAD's shield-and no one is more aware of them than NORAD's integrated U.S. and Canadian staff, which is directly responsible to the U.S. Joint Chiefs and the Canadian Chiefs of Staff Committee. NORAD directs some 50 fighter-interceptor squadrons, and has absorbed the former Air Defense Commands of the two countries. Most of the detection system's aircraft-seeking radar and all its missile-hunting antennas are poised toward the north, in logical anticipation of a possible polar strike. This leaves the U.S. flanks with little protection, despite...
...Army last week claimed a significant accomplishment for Nike Zeus, its 48-ft. nuclear-tipped anti-missile missile. Fired from New Mexico's White Sands missile range, a Nike Zeus locked on a ranging Nike Hercules; in the first real test of its interceptor capacity, the Zeus homed in and detonated close enough to be within "lethal radius" if it had carried a nuclear warhead...
...with bluff Chairman James H. ("Dutch") Kindelberger in 1934. The man primarily responsible for North American's diversification, Atwood prides himself on the fact that the company is now so broadly based that such setbacks as the washout of the 6-70 program and cancellation of the F108 interceptor have failed to check its growth. He is determined, too, to keep North American fast enough on its feet, not only to withstand but to profit from the dizzying rate of change in military technology. "Keeping up with change is indispensable to survival," says Atwood. "Creating change...
Operating on the Jones philosophy, Northrop had to make some harsh choices. It scrapped a program to build a costly Mach 3 interceptor, elected instead to develop a bargain-basement ($550,000) jet trainer. "Some people thought we were damned fools, because the Air Force was planning to buy 500 of these interceptors at $5,000,000 apiece," recalls Jones. "But it was clear to me that there were some tough decisions ahead that the Defense Department hadn't owned up to. With money being poured into long-range missiles, a program for a long-range fighter-interceptor looked...
Before long, the Pentagon proved Jones right by scrubbing the fighter-interceptor program. By contrast, Northrop's backlog for its supersonic T-38 Talon trainer now stands at $101 million...