Word: irbms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production line came out today in the House investigation of the missile program. Representative Mahon (D-Tex.) said top-level decisions will be forthcoming soon--possibly this week--to resolve Pentagon policy differences and to go into high gear operational production of the intermediate-range ballistic missile--IRBM...
...Navy awarded a $62 million contract to the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for developing the Polaris IRBM, a most promising solid-fuel missile that can be launched from submarines or ships...
...Third IRBM...
Meanwhile, the Navy has gone on developing its own IRBM to be launched from submarines or surface ships. Weighing only one-third as much as Thor or Jupiter, and burning easier-to-handle solid fuel instead of liquid, the Navy's Polaris promises to be a more efficient all-round IRBM than either of its rivals. If it were as far along in development as Thor and Jupiter, a case could be argued for making it the nation's production-line IRBM...
...tracks test missiles launched 700 miles away at Krasnyy Yar, Russia's version of Cape Canaveral, Fla. A vital source of U.S. intelligence about Soviet missiles, the Samsun radar picked up the 1,000-mile flight of an intermediate range ballistic missile in mid-1955, has detected five IRBM launchings a month over the past year or so. Last summer, before the Russians announced the testing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (TIME. Sept. 9), the far-seeing eye at Samsun noted at least eight long-range missiles hurtling across Siberia toward a target area in the North Pacific...