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Defense
‘mentioning:
the Navy Talos, eventually to carry an optimizedQKT
Weapons - warhead; the Army Nike-B, to carry a 30 warhead; the Air Force F99
Bomare j and, in the conceptual stage, air—to~air rockets,
The Talos
and Nike-B are to be operational by early 157,
The new air-to-air rocket program was considered in some detail,
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Air
Rocket
Sysrems
Stutiies
The tightest kind of systems study on this application is necessary.
The results ofanalyses relating time of flight, yield, and aircraft
kill and safety were presented.
It appears not possible to kill the —
enemy plane and avoid killing the friendly plane with yields less than
about one kiloton,
With ylelds larger than 1 KT there is a region,
defined by yield and tdme of flight, in which the attacking plane can
kill the enemy and escape.
A special systems study group, involving
Sandia, Los Alamos, and the Special Weapons Command, has been set up
to considerthe interrelated problems of the aircraft, rocket, warhead,
fuze, and fire-control, and to optimize this weapon system,
have a very tight progran for the next two years,
It will
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Some other general aspects of air defense warheads were next.
Aspects .
of Anti-
Aircraft
Warheads
discussed: (a) safety (requirement high, I-unit important, in-flight~.
insertioh and in~flight-retraction problems) ; (b) high altitude effects
(on high voltage sources); (c) readiness (corrosion problems); large
numbers needed,
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These considerations all point to the desirability of
a "canned warhead",
Some ideas as to what this might look like
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