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...million) while stepping up the emphasis on air power, the atom and electronic warfare. Main features: Air Force: The R.A.F., for the first time, will get the lion's share of British defense spending. Its "primary task'': to build up a striking force of atom-bomber squadrons as the "main contribution to the deterrent." The air defense of Britain will rest on delta- and swept-wing jets like the Javelin and the Hunter. But in a supplementary report which unconvincingly boasted that "this country has an effective air defense," the Defense Ministry as good as admitted that...
Muzzle Covers On. From Okinawa, Formosa and Manila, 132 U.S. and 27 Nationalist Chinese ships had converged on the Tachens; Sabre jets of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing patrolled the sea lane that led back to Formosa. From Saigon had come Rear Admiral Lorenzo Sabin. where he had directed the evacuation of 214,000 Vietnamese. "We are going in with our muzzle covers on," said Sabin, "but we are prepared to go into action if we are opposed...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Project scientists first recommended construction of the far-north warning line three years ago. Their estimate of its cost: $1 billion. At a time when the Soviet Union's best long-range bomber was a 300-m.p.h. copy of the U.S. B29, neither the U.S. nor Canada was willing to invest that much in a line 1,800 miles north of. the continent's main industrial centers. Priority went instead to the Pinetree line of radar and fighter control stations north of the U.S. border, and to the mid-Canada line...
...stepped up the efficiency of electronic detection, and Air Force engineers learned to cut arctic construction time by prefabrication and preassembly techniques, cost estimates for the DEW line dropped to about $250 million. After the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb and displayed a 600-m.p.h. long-range jet bomber last year, the U.S. and Canada decided to go ahead with DEW. Equipment too bulky to fly will move in by sea convoy during the brief shipping season...
Last week, in the midst of all the diplomatic blowup over Formosa, and at a time of international handwringing, a U.S. RB-45 reconnaissance jet bomber flew peacefully above the Yellow Sea, between the coasts of Korea and Red China, with twelve F-86 Sabre jets above it as top cover. Suddenly from nowhere flared out eight Communist MIGs-nationality uncertain, but intentions lethal. Four MIGs went for the RB-45, four for the Sabre jets. The Far East Air Forces' communique was laconic: "Pilots of the 4th Wing returned the attack and shot down two of the MIGs...