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...forth orders last month which in effect turned over to the Air Force and the Navy the development of all guided missiles that range farther than 200 miles (TIME, Dec. 10). In theory, this gave the Air Force control of the Army's "unproved" intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM)-the Jupiter-as well as final control over its own intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Just how furious the Army was, only relatively few could know-until last week...
...some suspect, Bergaust was the happy recipient of an Army leak, it was timely, for at week's end the Air Force was checking weather reports preparatory to launching its own IRBM, the Thor...
Looking forward to the day when it will have its own intermediate-range (1,500-mile) Fleet Ballistic Missile (the IRBM), the Navy this week placed in commission an experimental vessel named the Compass Island. The ship is jammed with feather-sensitive navigational equipment. The Island's mission: to test a navigational system capable of making the continuous hairline computations necessary to missile launching...
...enemy ground forces wherever they may be found-presumably including a Soviet garrison. On that basis the Army won authorization to work on Redstone, a 200-mile range missile, and with the Navy on Jupiter, an intermediate-range (1,500 miles) ballistics missile. The Army hopes that Jupiter, the IRBM, or Redstone can eventually be extended to ICBM range-a fact that the Air Force realizes and resents...