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The rest of the new military budget will finance the gradual modernization and replenishment of the U.S. arsenal, a process that has become routine in the cold war. It provides no fancy new weapons except those previously planned. One such is the Poseidon missile, which will replace the less accurate...
An old-line aircraft builder, famed for its World War II P-61 Black Widow fighters and the F89 Scorpion all-weather jets, Northrop went through a severe slump in the late 1950s. To keep the company going, Northrop President Thomas V. Jones, 46, pushed the company into electronics and...
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...