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...first test came on the third night the Carronade was on the line. A U.S. Army adviser called in from an outpost that was being overrun by Viet Cong, desperately demanded fire support. McCoy explained that his 5-in. gun was out of commission and all he had was rockets. "Never mind," answered the adviser. "Better you than them." The Carronade cut loose, slamming rockets into the attackers, only 200 yds. from the friendly troops. That night confidence was born in the accuracy of naval rocket fire. "We got to the point," says McCoy, "where we became artillery. A love...
Filling the Gun Gap. Created during last fall's "gun gap" to add desperately needed firepower to the ground war, McCoy's Navy consists of three World War II-vintage LSMRs (for Landing Ship Medium, Rocket) and the only inshore-fire-support ship in the world, the U.S.S. Carronade (aptly named for an 18th century cannon). Originally designed to pulverize beachheads for invading U.S. Marines, each ship mounts a battery of 5-in. rocket launchers and a single 5-in. naval rifle. Since the Marines had already landed when McCoy's Navy showed up last April...
...system, known as the "bow and arrow" method. Spotters ashore send target coordinates to the ships' Combat Information Centers, where men with aluminum ballistic slide rules (copied from a cardboard original found aboard one of the ships) swiftly tot up the deflection, angle-bearing and elevation of the rocket launchers. Then, just to make sure, one officer stands on the bridge to double-check the course of the rockets. Last week, as McCoy's Navy plastered everything from ammo dumps to Viet Cong villages in support of Saigon's Operation Franklin, accuracy on all targets ranged from...
During 15 years with the United Press International, Lowry Bowman reported his share of major news events-from the first manned U.S. rocket shots to the long, wearying travels of presidential campaigns. Later, as a $10,000-a-year rewrite man on the general-news desk of U.P.I.'s Washington bureau, he handled the nation's top political stories with speed and accuracy. A promotion was in the works; he was successful and progressing in his chosen profession...
...probably be to serve as a ferry carrying scientists and supplies to and from permanent orbiting laboratories. Long before that happens NASA will have to complete a series of increasingly ambitious experimental flights. In the future, a version of the M2-F2 will be equipped with an X-15 rocket plane engine and sent to an altitude of 80,000 ft. at a speed of 1,200 m.p.h. before starting its powerless descent. As more funds become available, a piloted lifting body with a heat shield will be launched from Cape Kennedy atop a Titan rocket. It will make...