Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army's R. & D. chief, Gavin bristled with new ideas that he hoped would put the service into the space business; he got the Nike program into the field, helped the Army keep for a while its continental defense mission. He became the biggest inspiration for the Army's research work in missiles, protected the missilemakers at the Army's Huntsville Arsenal while they developed the Jupiter C without formal Pentagon authorization...
...spoke up with the most telling criticisms and the most imaginative recommendations. Paratrooper Gavin declared that the Army could have put up its own Sputnik before the Russians (but was dealt out of the race), complained of what he felt was the continuing downgrading of the Army's mission in modern war, urged that the U.S. head straight past missile development into the no man's land of space-war thinking; e.g., develop a sophisticated satellite for reconnaissance as well as an anti-satellite weapon. Then, rising beyond his passionate service loyalties, Jim Gavin pointed out the weaknesses...
...last week a group of high-level Navy and Air Force officers got together to ponder a serious decision: whether the U.S. ought, in the age of the missile, to speed up a nuclear-powered airplane project, and, if so, what kind of plane, to perform what kind of mission, at what cost, and when. The Navy argued hard for a subsonic nuclear turboprop seaplane for antisubmarine warfare and long-range radar-warning patrol. The Air Force argued not quite so hard for a more advanced supersonic nuclear jet bomber. All believed that the Russians might soon have an atomic...
...Indonesian officials in Djakarta announced that because the U.S. had delayed so long in answering their request for arms, they may send a mission to Eastern Europe to see if they can buy Communist arms to beef up their obsolete arsenal...
...prop-driven RP-71 radios back target data it picks up by radar or infra-red sensory equipment. Night targets are lighted by a series of 300,000-candle-power flares, recorded by a motion-picture camera. When its mission is accomplished, the drone can be parachuted to earth, reused time and again. "These little fellows have four obvious pluses for the field commander," says an Army droneman. "They require no take-off or landing strip; they are effective at night, when the enemy makes his important moves; they are easily recoverable; and they are pilotless -precious life is being...