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...Navy told how it solves the target problem with Pogo, a cheap gadget developed at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. When the control center at White Sands Proving Ground wants a target for its deadly missiles to kill, it signals the crew of a target launcher parked out on the desert. A small, solid propellant rocket roars into the sky. When it reaches 40,000 feet or higher, a spring pushes its nose off, releasing a parachute whose silk is covered with a thin film of silver. The silver reflects radar waves like the skin...
...Missile-Launcher. Perhaps their most important mission will be as missile-launchers. There is certainly some doubt that an aircraft carrier can approach an enemy-held coast and survive concentrated attack by land-based airplanes armed with atomic bombs. The nuclear submarine can. It can cruise to the enemy coast submerged, rise to the surface briefly at night, launch its atom-armed missiles at short range and cruise away under water. It is probable that some missiles can actually be launched from beneath the surface. A missile-launcher of this type would be well-nigh undetectable...
...occasional guarding of Red army arsenals, they have no police duties, but live in old Wehrmacht barracks and train in the art of war. Out in the field they rehearse platoon and company maneuvers, learn to operate heavy machine guns and the "Stalin Organ" (a multi-tubed rocket launcher). They have a naval arm of 10,000 and a fledgling air force. The Volkspolizei is a police force that walks like an army...
Heart of the new launcher is a slotted cylinder through which a piston is driven by high-pressure steam from the main boilers. Even during steady use, the large demand for steam does not interfere with operation of the ship's turbines. Nearly every type of Britain's newest carrier planes has been catapulted, and enthusiastic pilots report that the launching is an entirely new experience. "It eases you up so beautifully," said a U.S. flyer attached to the Fleet Air Arm, "that you almost forget you're being catapulted...
MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHER...