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Every war, says Colonel McCutcheon, produces at least one new weapon, which usually appears too late to get in its full effect. The airplane, used in World War I, dominated World War II. The most promising new weapons of World War II were the German V-1 and V2. (The atom bomb, in the military man's book, is not a complete weapon at all, but only a super-explosive, to be lugged to the target by aircraft and perhaps, later, by directed missiles...
What had become of the technical brains of Nazi Germany, the scientists who tooled the Third Reich's production machine, fashioned the Luftwaffe's wings and designed V-1 and V2? This week the U.S. Army gave an answer. A few of them had been whisked off to the U.S.S.R., presumably to work in laboratory and shop as privileged guests. But many of them were in the U.S. They were guests, too, and at work...
...Rocket-line distance from Khartoum toTeheran (on the Persian plateau, Alexander the Great's classic Indian invasion route) is only 1,700 miles. Longest wartime rocket flight was about 200 miles, by a German V2. The V-2 launched in New Mexico last September had a theoretical range of 1,500 miles. Designed, but still dependent on solution of fuel problems, are 3,500-mile rockets. Other rocket-line distances from the African girdle: Khartoum to Suez, 950 miles; Kenya to Moscow, 4,000 miles; Lake Chad to Munich, 2,200 miles; Khartoum to Sofia, 1,800 miles...
Laurels, Old & New. It took German scientists twelve years to develop the V2, and U.S. experts nearly a year to learn how to operate it, with the aid of German technicians working in "voluntary protective custody." But the Army does not intend to rest on its secondhand laurels. Soon it will start work on bigger, longer-range rockets designed to carry a worthwhile atomic payload...
...built-in source of power, are propelled only by the speed of the plane which launches them and by gravity. The rocket-propelled bomb for the push-button war was not yet ready for unveiling. There was nothing at Dayton as futuristic, even, as last year's German V2...