Word: launcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bathrobe ($6,975), and Manhattan Jeweler Harry Winston has a nice diamond and emerald necklace for $275,000. An Albuquerque blood bank is selling a $5 gift certificate that is good for all the emergency transfusions a family might need in a year. Abercrombie & Fitch has a beer-can launcher ($24.95) for men who like to combine their shooting with their drinking and do not want to bother with clay pigeons; A. Sulka & Co. is selling men's handmade leopardskin gloves lined with beaver ($125). His and Her vicuna lounging robes ($1,100 a set), and an ebony walking...
Other facts and figures were known: the launcher was an Atlas, and the second stage was an Agena, which spun into orbit, weighed some 4,000 Ibs., including 2,000 Ibs. of instruments and equipment. But the most significant thing about last week's Samos was the secrecy that shrouded it. Said an official Air Force spokesman in a masterpiece of Pentagonese: "The purpose of the initial Samos flights is component testing bearing on the engineering feasibility of obtaining an observation capability from an orbiting satellite...
...dart-shaped B70 is an airman's vision: designed to fly three times faster than sound and 15 miles above the ground, it could serve as a nuclear bomber, a satellite launcher, or a six-jet civilian transport that could span the Atlantic in an hour. But what would be its strategic value in the missile age? "Doubtful," answered Old Infantryman Dwight Eisenhower last January, as he chopped the B-70's development budget for fiscal 1961 from a requested $385 million to only $75 million, barely enough to build two stripped-down flying shells. Last week, just...
ASROC, developed by Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. under the direction of the Naval Ordnance Test Station, can attack a submerged submarine almost as soon as it is detected by sonar. The boxlike launcher on the destroyer contains eight missiles. A digital computer, with superhuman speed, notes the roll, pitch, course and speed of the ship and the speed and direction of the wind...
Best Moment. From the sonar the computer gets the distance, bearing, depth, course and speed of the submarine. It combines all these factors and tells the launcher to point accordingly. When the destroyer commander decides that the best moment has come, he fires one or more missiles. The submarine does not know that it is being attacked until the missile hits the water. The Navy, which plans to put ASROC in 150 ships, will not tell its top range; in fact, the range is determined by the effectiveness of sonar, not by the power of the missile's rocket...