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...work for SAC; soon will come the B-526, designed to give the alert force 30% more range. The Air Force has contracted for 30 test supersonic delta-wing B58 bombers for phasing in beside the medium B-473. Already SAC has its first operational intercontinental guided missile: Snark, a lumbering air-breather that cannot break the sound barrier but can dump a thermonuclear payload (as it proved in a flight test last week) on a target less than five miles in diameter at a range of 5,000 miles. A really hot Air Force prospect is Rascal...
From the palmetto-dotted public beach that adjoins the launching sites, newsmen glimpsed test-firings of the 5,000-mile Navaho and the less complex Snark which superseded it, covered the first successful firing of the Air Force's Thor (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end the newsmen were standing by for the biggest bird of all, the second attempt to launch the 5,000-mile ICBM Atlas...
...which began July 1) under a $38 billion ceiling. Production of the new B-52 jet bomber was "stretched out." Defense plant overtime was curtailed. Thirty-three small Navy installations were ordered closed down. With the slow-flying intercontinental Snark missile on line and the rocket-powered intercontinental ballistics missile around the corner, Wilson scrapped the Air Force's $500 million long-range Navaho to save $1 billion needed to make the bird operational...
...compact warheads and with better missiles such as the Atlas and Titan ICBMs, which travel at 16,000 m.p.h. coming along more rapidly than expected, the Navaho would probably be obsolete before it ever got into operational use. Instead, the Air Force decided to produce Northrop's pilotless Snark bomber, a much slower (650 m.p.h.) but more nearly operational missile, as an interim weapon until the huge ICBMs are in production...
INTERCONTINENTAL SNARK missile is going into large-scale production, will be first missile with 5,000-mile range assigned to operational units of Strategic Air Command. Air Force will give Northrop Aircraft, Inc. a $73 million contract to turn out subsonic Snark...