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Top U.S. Navy planners last week were fairly hopping a hornpipe over a new weapons system that stands to reshape longstanding concepts of naval warfare -and, for that matter, seriously influence all current U.S. military and diplomatic thinking. The new idea, as radical as the development of the atom bomb...
Instant Thrust. The Navy first hit full speed with the Polaris system early last year, after it ditched the idea of adapting the Army's bulky liquid-fuel Jupiter for shipboard use. As Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arleigh Burke said, the Navy needed "an IRBM with salt water...
Overzealous Polarismen, clocking this swift progress, are certain now that they have the ultimate deterrent to all-out thermonuclear war. The U.S. might as well get ready to scratch the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, they boast, since 40 Polaris subs (life span: 15-20 years), along with...
Slight, pink-cheeked Robert E. Gross, board chairman of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (prime contractor on the Navy Polaris), registered the common complaint that Government agencies, bureaus, committees, staffs and boards interfere with quick and able decisionmaking. Contractors, he declared, are "bogged down in a labyrinth of advisers advising advisers ... We...
Sen. Jackson (D-Wash.) said a proposed single-package amendment to the defense appropriations bill probably will call for increased production of long range missiles, the Navy underwater-fired Polaris missile and the special submarines to launch it.