Word: polarises
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The genius of M.I.T., on the other hand, has been devoted to serving the nation's more immediate needs. Its radar and antiaircraft gun sights shortened World War II. Its guidance system for the Polaris missile gives the U.S. a big military advantage today, and its SABRE guidance system...
Super Magnets. EMS 1 is the brainchild of Westinghouse Mechanical Engineer Stewart Way, a specialist in magnetohydrodynamics. As far back as 1958, he recalls, "I had a hankering to develop an electrical submarine without propellers or jets." But in those days there was one insurmountable problem: to develop a magnetic...
Integrated circuits are becoming one of the basic building blocks of the space age. They are vital to the electronic systems of the Minuteman II and Polaris missiles, the Navy A-7A attack bomber and the supersonic, swing-wing F-111A. They are at work in the radiation measurement system...
The Successor. The earliest class of subs carried 1,200-mile-range A-1 Polaris missiles. Now the Navy is on the way toward fitting most of the 41 missile-equipped subs with the 2,500-mile-range A-3 Polaris. Nuclear energy gives them unparalleled mobility and almost indefinite...
The U.S. aims to stay ahead. Last week the House of Representatives voted $300 million for the coming year's costs of developing the Poseidon (or C3) missile, which the Defense Department envisions as Polaris' successor on the Navy's missile-carrying subs. Three feet longer than...