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The big (28 ft.) yellow-and-black bird was fired from a launching tube some 200 ft. below the surface off Southern California's San Clemente Island. At the press of a button in an island blockhouse, a blast of compressed air pushed the Polaris to the surface. As...
Said the Navy of the 18-second test: "Successful in every respect." Next big step: a full-range, two-stage, 1,200-mile firing from the nuclear submarine George Washington in August-and then on to operational duty at sea, where the well-concealed, virtually invulnerable Polaris will add a...
¶ Salvaged an inertial guidance system that North American had been working on since 1950 for a fighter plane (the system has yet to go into a fighter, but its kissing-cousin now guides Polaris subs).
As he stood before the House of Commons last week, Defense Minister Harold Watkinson wore the pained expression of a man treading on nettles. "In the light of our military advice," intoned Watkinson, "we have concluded . . . that we ought not to continue to develop, as a military weapon, a missile...
Schedules & Warheads. Designed around cumbersome liquid-fueled engines, Blue Streak can only be shot from complex fixed bases. As evidenced by this winter's 7,700-mile Pacific shoot, Russian rockets have proved accurate enough to knock them all out with a single barrage. What Britain needs is a...