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...Minutes after it had surfaced off California's Point Mugu. the Navy's conventionally powered submarine Grayback launched a stubby-winged turbojet missile from its deck, quietly slipped back under the waves. With chase and control planes following closely. Chance Vought's Regulus II flew a guided, circuitous 200-mile route to Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, where because of a landing-gear malfunction, it burned up on landing. But the landing was a technicality : the business version of Regulus II will pack a nuclear warhead on a 1,000-mile range, will give...
...purr of a hydraulic pump, the leaky-faucet sound of water trickling down the packing gland of the periscope barrel. The sub broke water, the bridge hatch swung open, the skipper and his lookouts scrambled topside. There they began the countdown required before launching a 1,000-mile Regulus-type missile. The sub rocked quietly, like a metronome. After precisely 15 minutes came the fire command. A light flashed skyward, headed northwest-in the direction of Washington...
...Development, recalls that it was all but impossible to get the Navy and Air Force to work together on a single 500-mile-range, subsonic, surface-to-surface missile: "As a consequence, we have two such missiles−the Air Force's Matador and the Navy's Regulus." Cost of developing Matador and Regulus, with practically the same range, speed and bang: $200 million apiece...
Built-in Cushion. Most other plane makers admitted to austerity, but they were not alarmed. Washington had tipped them months ago to the coming cutbacks, and they had slowly geared for them. To cushion the drop in F8U production, Chance Vought is counting on missile contracts for its Regulus and heavy orders for a faster, improved all-weather F8U, which it now has on the drawing boards. Douglas figures that its $2.5 billion backlog and its big business in missiles and commercial jets can easily absorb the slack of the Skyhawk stretch-out. And to help offset the stretch...
SUPERSONIC MISSILE for Navy, Chance-Vought's surface-to-surface turbojet Regulus II, will soon be in production with $26 million order. Designed for subs and cruisers, missile is much faster (estimated speed: 1,000 m.p.h.) than subsonic Regulus...