Word: warheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a trip to the impact point, Commander Murphy reported: "The warhead was in one piece...
...Army's record-breaker was made out of a German V2, with its warhead replaced by the small, U.S.-developed "WAC Corporal" rocket. When the combination reached a certain height (the Army did not say how high), the WAC Corporal was fired by electronic control. It zipped out of the V-2's nose added its own speed to that of the V2, and reached 5,000 m.p.h. The empty V-2 fell 20 miles from the firing place; the WAC Corporal was tracked by instruments, apparently fell about 80 miles north of White Sands. Four days later...
...present the Navy is not discussing its plans for the Neptune. It will be useful, suggested one Navy spokesman, for probing the upper atmosphere. If war comes, presumably the Navy will consider arming its peaceful Neptune with a warhead...
...strategists guess, Russia will have the power to send one-way missions of 1,000 planes against the U.S. By 1949, they think, Russia will probably have guided missiles, armed with a one-ton warhead, with a range of 3,000 miles. By 1952 disease-tipped bacterial weapons may be practical. Any time after 1952, by their estimates, Russia is very likely to have the Bomb...
This little aircraft is a captured Japanese suicide rocket bomb, fitted with a pilot's cockpit, steering controls and an explosive warhead in the nose. It may have been modeled after the pilotless German V-i robomb, which it resembles in size and destructive capacity. Japanese broadcasts have glorified it under the name Jinrai ("sudden peal of thunder"), but U.S. fighting men promptly tagged it with another Japanese term, baka ("stupid"). In operation, Stupid is carried near its target by a bomber, then cut loose. The pilot glides down and can fire three rockets in the tail to give...