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Until the ICBMs are ready, the Air Force must depend upon its manned thermonuclear bombers reinforced by its only near-operational intercontinental guided missile, the Northrop Snark, an air-breathing, star-guided, 600-m.p.h. missile that can take a hydrogen warhead 5,000 miles to target or deploy electronic countermeasures over an enemy heartland to lure defenders away from main bomber strikes elsewhere...
...touch with Convair that morning and been told that the Pentagon had not yet directed the firm to speed up the Atlas program.) Later on in his testimony Douglas proved to be unaware that the Air Force recently ordered a 50% cutback in production of its 5.000-mile subsonic Snark guided missile...
...this week by the Air Force: the U.S.'s first ready-for-action unit (eight officers, three chief warrant officers, 67 enlisted men and 30 civilians) designed ) fire the Strategic Air Command's first ready-for-action intercontinental guided missile, Snark. Next month the Air Force ill also start building the U.S.'s Snark ase at Presque Isle, Me. From there nark will be able to reach almost all worthwhile targets in heartland Russia...
...Snark, winged, air-breathing and subtonic, will fly five to seven hours to target as opposed to 15 to 30 minutes for the intercontinental ballistic missiles still under development. But Snark can carry thermonuclear warhead accurately to target at 5,000 milerange. And Snark, added or not with countermeasures to confuse enemy radar, is also a highly promising decoy weapon to lure enemy defenders away from main strike forces delivering the decisive blows elsewhere...
...SNARK MISSILE OUTPUT will be boosted by Air Force. Northrop Aircraft's $73 million production contract will be raised to $143 million, enough for 35 to 40 of the 5,000-mile-range guided missiles, plus equipment for ground-support stations now starting to go up (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...