Word: interceptor
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Flying Arrowhead. The Navy allowed Douglas Aircraft Co. to release a picture of its XF4D, an experimental jet interceptor of daring, tailless design. Intended for launching by catapult from a carrier deck, it has been test-flown successfully, but nothing has been made public about its performance...
...Announced that an overlapping network of radar-warned "fighter-interceptor wings" equipped with the latest F-86 and F94 jet fighters had been set up across the U.S. to guard against surprise attacks...
...actual performance figures of up-to-date afterburners are secret. The great flames are probably inefficient, using floods of fuel. But they will toss a fighter up to 40,000 feet in half the time that would be needed without them. For an interceptor like the F-94, a few minutes saved in climbing might mean success in downing an enemy bomber...
After the war, General Kepner was air commander at the Bikini atomic tests, more recently has been commander of the Air Force's proving ground at Eglin Field, Florida. In sending him to Alaska, the Defense Department was putting a veteran interceptor on top of the world, along the short Arctic air route to the U.S. from Russia...
...Navy air as well as Air Force. The Soviet Union now has some 350 bombers modeled on the 6-29, which could reach almost any point in the U.S., drop their bombs, land on the nearest airfield and surrender. Neither the U.S. radar net nor the U.S.'s interceptor forces were adequate to stop them...