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Meanwhile, the Navy has gone on developing its own IRBM to be launched from submarines or surface ships. Weighing only one-third as much as Thor or Jupiter, and burning easier-to-handle solid fuel instead of liquid, the Navy's Polaris promises to be a more efficient all...
Viewed in one light, the Navy's development of Polaris proves the often-raised point that service rivalry can be a valuable spur to research; viewed in another, it proves that if the best plans of each service were pooled to begin with, the U.S. might have better missiles...
Titan & Atlas. So far, most of the production-and most of the profit-has gone to two giants in the field: General Tire's Aerojet subsidiary and North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division, both of which got in on the ground floor and today account for almost 75...
The Inertial Guidance system that guided the 1953 flight with nearly pinpoint accuracy weighed a hefty 2,700 Ibs., got the tag "navigation in a closet." To be effective in a missile where each pound of excessive weight exacts a heavy toll in lost speed and distance, the mass of...
Then there are developing the Air Force's "cruise" missiles, the Northrop Snark and perhaps the North American Navaho, in effect advanced unmanned airplanes of 5,000 miles range which, unlike the ICBM, can be controlled by their mechanism on their infinitely slower way all the way to the...