Word: skybolts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skybolt. Most of the new business came from airlines' rushing to line up early delivery dates for the 490-passenger 747, the first of which is due in 1969. Counting United's order, Boeing has announced sales of 25 of the giants, worth $550 million, since...
...more sales of its bread-and-butter 707s and tri-jet 727s, Boeing also picked up its first major Pentagon order since 1958. Under an initial $236 million contract, the company will develop and produce a nuclear-tipped SRAM (for short-range attack missile), a sort of son of Skybolt that can be launched from airborne bombers, guided to targets 100 miles away. SRAM may be worth $1 billion to Boeing eventually...
Other obsolete missiles lay around on the ground, waiting for the Air Force to build a museum to house them--a Snark, like the air-breathing monster that ran wild over South America and landed in a jungle in Brazil; a Skybolt; a Minuteman model, slim, looking like three bullets, glued one on top of the other...
Enmity & Respect. McNamara's bold cancellations and cutbacks of major weapons-system programs, notably the air-to-ground Skybolt missile, the supersonic B70 bomber and nuclear-powered planes and aircraft carriers, have earned him the enmity but also the grudging respect of the military. His decision to close down 95 military bases last year (at an estimated savings to the taxpayer of $477 million a year) threatened local economies and brought cries of outrage from Governors and Congressmen-and Illinois Senator Paul Douglas' tribute: "You are the first man to have the courage...
...barrel along on the deck to elude enemy radar, the TSR-2 was first intended to be a light bomber. Later the plane was modified for direct support of ground troops, replacing the canceled Blue Water artillery missile. Then two years ago, when the U.S. decided to scrub its Skybolt air-to-ground thermonuclear missile, which had been destined for sale to the R.A.F., TSR-2 was again modified-this time to play the role of a "hedgehopping" strategic strike and reconnaissance bomber...