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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 25, 1963
McNamara 'No' to RS70 Spending
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Congress received it straight from the source today—in case there was any doubt—that Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara does not think it "necessary" to step up spending on the RS70 warplane.
McNamara gave that economy-oriented word to some economy-minded senators yesterday. In testimony before the senate military appropriations subcommittee, McNamara also engaged in some lively, but good tempered, exchanges on other topics.
DURING a lengthy appearance McNamara tangled with subcommittee members on such widely varied subjects as the gravity of last fall's Cuban crisis and the performance of the controversial TFX fighter, as well as the question of development of the RS70.
Both the House and Senate have voted the secretary an unrequested $363 million authorization to speed development of the suprasonic RS70 strike plane. Most of the unrequested funds voted by Congress for this and other bombers in prior years have gone unspent.
McNamara said in reply to a question that he did not view the additional money for the RS70 as necessary.
McNAMARA also questioned the wisdom of additional spending for the cancelled Skybolt missile, and for what he called "unnecessary" TFX planes.
That was a reference to the controversy over the TFX fighter plane contract. McNamara has said his prime object was to get the Navy and the Air Force to agree on the design
for a single plane rather than build contrasting tactical fighters.
SEN. BARRY Goldwater, R-Ariz., questioned McNamara about the performance of the TFX. Goldwater, a major general in the Air Force reserve, said he thinks the 86 billion to be spent on the TFX could have produced "something more sophisticated than what we will end up with."
McNamara disagreed, saying the TFX is, if anything, "pushing the state of the art further than we should."
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