Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was not until the advent of J. Hugh Gambit that the problem was solved. Gambit singlehandedly created the art of Sexmanship--he was the first and, I venture to say, the greatest Sexman, though others have indeed followed in his footsteps. His basic maneuver--which later came to be...
Planes v. Missiles. Ever since the end of World War II, the development of such a weapon has been one of the Air Force's main points in the endless arguments over tactical air power. In an age of jet aircraft and atomic weapons, prop-driven planes like the...
The three Western powers sent a stiff note of protest to General Vasily Chuikov, the Soviet commander. Best guess among allied officials on the latest Russian maneuver: East Germany badly wants to renew its trade agreement with West Germany because it needs Western goods. Pressure on Berlin, the Reds apparently...
Conventional war games are played on maneuver-area battlefields with sweat, dust, mud, and all the roaring, dangerous machines of modern war. Last week at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, quiet men in a quiet room were playing another sort of strategic war game. The only battle noise was...
Underwater, in its natural element, the atomic sub will have a destroyer's speed: 25 knots for steady cruising, 30 or 35 knots in emergencies. Her skipper will have an airplane's joystick to maneuver his craft in steep turns and dives, "fly" it like a fighter pilot...