Word: interceptor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Guard, it proposed to keep 574,900 officers & men trained for the ground forces (double the prewar figure) and 47,600 for the Air Forces (a ninefold increase). The minutemen of the atomic age would man 22 infantry and two armored divisions, under an umbrella of 84 interceptor and observation squadrons...
...military security (the enemy has had no opportunity to capture a P-80), estimates have been made of some of the features of the performance of the newest U.S. craft in the air. So fast is the P-80 that nothing that flies (including the tailless Messerschmitt 163 rocket interceptor) "can match its speed of "considerably more than 600 m.p.h." Its ceiling is well above the 40,000 feet at which propeller-driven planes can operate with efficiency, and it has a pressurized cabin...
...interceptor-fighter plane with a rocket-booster mechanism which enables it to sustain a climb at an angle of 45 to 60 degrees, zoom to an altitude of 22,000 ft. in two minutes...
...tactics were equally impressive. Three of the four heaviest R.A.F. attacks were delivered on twin targets. Purpose: to split up the Nazi interceptor forces, prevent concentration of Germany's highly organized mobile anti-aircraft artillery. The three raids: Nov. 3, Düsseldorf & Cologne; Nov. 18, Berlin & Ludwigshafen; Nov. 26, Berlin & Stuttgart. On these three and the Berlin attack Nov. 22, the R.A.F. lugged about 2,000 tons of bombs per night. An R.A.F. rule of thumb: one raid of 2,000 tons requires a month's organization work by 18,500 men, destroys as much...
...plane will have 'eyes' that help guide it to its target, or warn and plot the course of interceptor aircraft. It will carry bombs of an entirely different design. It may mount heavy-caliber cannon of an entirely new principle of operation. Fighter planes will have advanced almost beyond recognition in form and in the combat equipment they carry." What made these predictions news this week was their author: not Major de Seversky, writing for the aviation press, but General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, in a special article for Army Ordnance...