Word: skybolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile Blue Streak IRBM. The big rocket might be salvaged as a satellite launcher in the space sweepstakes, said Watkinson. But for delivery of its future nuclear punch, Great Britain will rely on U.S. missiles, probably the Navy's Polaris and the Air Force's air-launched Skybolt rocket...
Though there are firm orders (twelve units) for the Thor Delta, the production peak has been passed. The last Thor was delivered last month. ¶ The Air Force's Skybolt, an air-launched ballistic missile, may eventually be a big program (some estimates put it well over $500 million), but it is still in the early development stages and is by no means large enough to fill the hole left by Thor...
...MISSILE SPENDING will give Douglas Aircraft $60 million in fiscal 1961 for full-scale development of its 1,000-mile, air-to-ground Sky-bolt missile. Designed as a "standoff" weapon to be launched from B-52 jet bombers, Skybolt is expected to be major nuclear weapon, is slated to go into service within next three to five years...