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...aged etc. But it is in the $40 billion defense budget that the real cuts must be made if the Administration is to approach its budget goals. To that end. President Eisenhower has ordered that a decision, delayed for many months, be made at last between the Air Force IRBM Thor and its Army rival Jupiter...
...radar stations in Turkey have counted hundreds of firings of 800-mile Russian intermediate-range ballistic missiles (v. 30-40 U.S. IRBM firings...
...Mojave Desert, where because of a landing-gear malfunction, it burned up on landing. But the landing was a technicality : the business version of Regulus II will pack a nuclear warhead on a 1,000-mile range, will give the Navy an operational submarine-launched supersonic missile until the IRBM Polaris (fired from a submerged sub) comes along...
Despite its proneness to bluntness, the Air Force last month successfully fired a Thor-Able missile with a faster-flying new nose of the type developed by the Army on its Jupiter IRBM. This one is more classically sharp. Instead of absorbing and avoiding heat, it removes heat by "ablation." Technique: coating the nose surface with materials that melt or vaporize while absorbing heat, yet leave the material underneath cool and undamaged. The best materials seem to be polymer plastics, mixed with fibers of glass...
Well on its way toward operational perfection, the Army's IRBM Jupiter was shot off last week from the Cape, lunged hundreds of miles into the sky and 1,500 miles downrange; two hours later its nose cone was dipped out of the sea intact. It was the third nose cone to be retrieved, and, reported Army missilemen happily, it proved that the critical problem of warhead re-entry into the earth's atmosphere had been solved...