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...summary of the quantitative comparison of U.S. and Soviet air power would stress: Russian superiority in current numerical production of military aircraft (though not necessarily in airframe weight); Soviet superiority in numbers of fighter, fighter-interceptor, fighter-bomber and light-bomber types; U.S. superiority in ship-based naval air power (the Russians have none); U.S. superiority in numbers of long-range jet medium bombers (the B-47, of which more than1,000 have been produced); U.S. superiority-or at least approximate equality-in numbers of heavy jet medium bombers (the B-52 type); U.S. superiority in modern troop carriers...
...Tests on the Bomarc, a long-range pilotless interceptor, "are very encouraging...
...toward two long, lean F-86D fighters. In two minutes they were surging down the runway with a crashing roar, and two more jets rolled into position for takeoff. Before their wheels were fully up, the lead pair were getting radio orders and a fix on the suspect plane. Interceptor pilots can open fire at will against any aircraft they believe to be hostile. Identifications are quickly made in daylight; at nighttime, pilots buzzed by suspicious jets are quick to turn on their landing lights to identify themselves...
...Defense Command also wants the Voodoo. Present interceptors can only stay at bomber altitude for seconds, make one pass and come back. The big Voodoos can stay at high altitudes for hours, attacking again and again. Altitude, stamina and a storehouse of weapons have replaced maneuverability as the big asset of an interceptor...
Britain last week rolled out its first truly supersonic jet. Built by English Electric, maker of the Canberra twin-jet bomber, the new P. 1 is a stubby, delta-winged interceptor, with a double-barreled Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire power plant turning out a total of 20,000 Ibs. of thrust. All English Electric will say is that the plane can fly faster than sound in level flight, and that 20 have been ordered to short-cut the time lag between prototype and production models. At the news, most of Britain's newspapers went all out, claimed speeds...