Versatile Skybolt Rocket Can Be Used As Bomb Too
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) — The newest addition to America's stockpile of military magic is a ballistic missile that could land a nuclear warhead on target even if its engines fail to fire.
This remarkable-sounding ability is the latest to be credited to the Skybolt, a two-stage rocket that is shaping up as one of the most versatile in the nation's growing space-arsenal.
Actually, this trick involves a few mirrors of sorts. Skybolt is much like any other ballistic missile — a rocket-powered weapon designed to lob a nuclear payload in a great arc, at very high speeds, through the edge of space.
The emergency rocket-to-bomb plan for Skybolt was revealed by C. S. Perry, deputy director of the Skybolt system subdivision for the Douglas Co., shortly after the firm's fourth air-launched missile scored its "best success to date" Tuesday.
BUT SKYBOLT has one advantage — it is launched from high-flying B-52 jet bombers. Thus, if for some reason the airborne crew should decide the Skybolt might malfunction if launched in the normal fashion, the rocket coud quickly become a dandy bomb.
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The 39-foot, finned white rocket was released from the wing of a B-52 just after the jet whizzed over
The second stage also fired on time and, although the engines cut off a few seconds earlier than planned, the missile soared more than 600 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. It was the first success in four launchings for the new rocket.
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the navy's submarine-launched Polaris missile. "If the Polaris doesn't work, they might find it hard to drop it from the submarine," Perry said.
Polaris already is operational, but Skybolt faces another two years of engineering before it meets the goal stated by Perry: "It's just another bullet you hang on that airplane, and it's got to act like one."
THAT IS, more or less, the way Skybolt normally should work. In this manner, the missile will be able to hurl a one-megaton (equal to one million tons of TNT) nuclear warhead to targets a little better than 1,000 miles away.
Cape Canaveral at about 40,000 feet. Four seconds later, the booster engine ignited on time and sent the Skyboli soaring to the edge of space.
ACTUALLY, the Skybolt system has been called the air-going version of the Polaris. One uses the airplane and the other the nuclear submarine, but the idea is the same — to keep the missiles constantly on the move, well hidden and difficult to pinpoint with defenses.
Skyholt is expected to become operational in October of 1964. Perry said the success Tuesday left the program "only about two weeks behind schedule. And over a four-year development period, we're in the second year — that's not much."
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But, said Perry, if the Skybolt could not be fired in the normal fashion, the jet could fly on to the target itself and drop the missile like an ordinary bomb. The trick, he admitted, would be in getting the airplane past enemy defenses.
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Britain "Is Concerned" Over Caribbean Area
LONDON — (UPI) — Britain, perturbed over latest developments in Cuba, has officially expressed "concern" over the growing Communist threat in the Caribbean.
A foreign office spokesman said the British Government "shares the United States' concern over Cuba."
"The United States administration, with whom we have been discussing the general question of Cuba, cannot be in any doubt that the United Kingdom shares their preoccupation over developments in Cuba, in view of our own interests in the Caribbean area," the spokesman said.
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