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Working also with such missile prototypes as the Northrop "Snark" and the North American "Navaho" (which have intercontinental range, but at speeds only comparable to current bomber types), the U.S. may be catching up. The prospect is that by 1960 both the U.S. and the Soviet Union will have missiles that can carry hydrogen pay loads at 10,000 m.p.h. with a range of some 5,000 miles...
...went into a whole line of heavy machine tools. For its heavy military business in the '30s, Vickers was tagged a "merchant of death." But in World War II, its fabled Spitfire (935,000 sorties by 1945) helped win the Battle of Britain, and its slab-sided Wellington bomber supplied the R.A.F.'s first counterpunch...
...variety of products in every division. Planes are no exception. In addition to its civilian Viscount, Vickers is also busy making its supersonic jet Supermarine Swift for the R.A.F., though bugs have slowed production. Its huge, four-jet Vickers Valiant is Britain's first long-range A-bomber to hit the production line. And to back up its short-range Viscount in the battle for airline supremacy, Vickers designers are at work on the Vickers 1,000, a huge swept-wing transport with four Rolls Royce Conway bypass engines, designed to carry 150 passengers nonstop across the Atlantic...
...prang for the pound, a British version of more bang for a buck. MacMillan has made several big decisions. Items: ¶ Britain's antiaircraft command, which employs 100,000 regulars and reserves, is soon to be abolished. Reason: the Red air force's sweptwing, supersonic T-39 bomber (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) flies well above the range of Britain's heaviest ack-ack guns. MacMillan hopes to replace the gun batteries with radar-directed rockets, able to find and destroy enemy bombers traveling at 1,000 m.p.h. at heights up to 60,000 ft. But such rockets might...
...FLYING BOAT, the Martin XP6M Seamaster, will give the Navy its first water-based, long-range strategic jet bomber next spring. The new plane, under construction at Baltimore, will have an internal bomb bay built into the hull, will be powered by four Allison J71 engines buried in the wing, and probably have enough speed (600-plus m.p.h.) to outrun the Air Force...