Word: warheaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RASCAL MISSILE, an air-to-surface, electronically guided rocket that carries a nuclear warhead, will go into limited production. Bell Aircraft Corp. has been awarded $22 million in Air Force contracts to make and test prototypes...
SUPERSONIC TALOS, Navy's top-rated missile for -long-range antiaircraft defense, will go into operational use within the next twelve months under the first big production contract. Navy has placed $27 million order with Bendix Aviation Corp. for surface-to-air missile capable of carrying atomic warhead, will step up weapon's 75-mile range to 100 miles. Cruisers Little Rock and Galveston now are being converted to carry Talos...
According to Bergaust, the Polaris will be a rather fat missile 40 ft.-50 ft. long and about 8 ft. in diameter. Its range will be more than 800 miles, and it will carry a nuclear warhead. Instead of liquid fuels, which the Navy considers too dangerous and undependable to use in a submarine, the Polaris will have a solid propellant. It may be launched directly out of a special compartment in the submarine, or it may be released and allowed to float upward before its main motor ignites. Perhaps the submarine will have raised some sort of antenna above...
...missile's ground-locked pilots realized it was out of control, they pushed the button that was supposed to blow it up in midair. But the Snark refused to commit suicide. When last seen by radar, it was slipping over the South American horizon. Happily, it carried no warhead...
...awkwardly shaped, 1,000-lb. chunk of rusted scrap, took over the acetylene torch himself when the workman failed to make satisfactory progress, got positive results whenthe object's outer casing began smoking and split open, hurriedly stopped salvaging when he peered inside, recognized a Japanese torpedo warhead...