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...WARHEAD-Das Laudenboomer...
RASCAL MISSILE made by Bell Aircraft Corp. will go to SAC units this month. By late October, B-47 bombers will start training flights with Rascal, which can carry a nuclear warhead 100 miles from plane to ground target...
...missile, its bottom spitting flame, soared into the blue sky. "Well, I'll tell you," one woman said disappointedly, "that wasn't the big one. I'm sure of that." She was right; it was only the Army's Jupiter, designed to carry a nuclear warhead a mere 1,500 miles...
...m.p.h.. give it a range of 250 miles v. 50 miles for Nike Hercules antiaircraft missiles. Once launched from a trailer-like "transporter-erector," an electronic guidance system flies the Bomarc, seeks out the enemy formation until it gets close enough to trigger a high-explosive, or nuclear, warhead. Boeing has been working on an answer to high-flying atomic bombers ever since the first 6-52 designs took shape in the late '40s. The first Bomarc was flown in 1952, has since been perfected in dozens of tests against high-flying drones; the Air Force now calls...
...fire-fighting rocket is almost as simple as a wheelbarrow. It has a metal tube packed with solid propellant and feathered with four fins. The working parts come packed in a cylinder of strong waterproof cardboard which can be attached as the "warhead" and filled with water or chemicals. When fired from a simple launching rack, the rocket flies more than a mile. When it hits, its liquid cargo splashes in fine spray, drenching a 50-yd. circle. Rockets carrying 10 gallons cost about $35 each. California and U.S. forest fire fighters are interested. They do not hope...