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¶ Minutes after it had surfaced off California's Point Mugu. the Navy's conventionally powered submarine Grayback launched a stubby-winged turbojet missile from its deck, quietly slipped back under the waves. With chase and control planes following closely. Chance Vought's Regulus II flew a...
Thach's assignment is no less than that of rewriting the Navy's antisubmarine book, of finding defenses against a new submarine revolution that began when the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Nautilus first slid into the sea four years ago. That revolution reached its highest point only last fortnight...
A helo dropped a Bloodhound-a practice acoustic torpedo of a type that would carry a nuclear warhead in battles. The orange tube disappeared into the water, spiraled down in its hunt for the right depth, leveled out and rammed the submarine, its wooden nose smashing forward near the port...
With no guiding stars or radio beams to give her position, how did the U.S.S. Nautilus navigate under the Arctic icecap? The secret is inertial navigation-a new means of finding latitude and longitude wholly without external reference points. Last week it was also used in the Arctic by the...
In one voyage of one U.S. nuclear submarine-one of six operational, 23 on the way-the Navy had 1) increased the power of the U.S. deterrent by laying bare the Communist empire's northern shores to the future Polaris-missile-toting nuclear submarines; 2) pioneered a potential though...