RADAR AGAINST ROCKETS
RESEARCH BY U.S.
WASHINGTON, March 1. The United States Army has announced preparations to pit radar against captured German V-2 weapons in a spectacular search for means of defence against rocket and atom bomb Brigadier-General W. L. Richardson said the tests would be held on the New Mexico desert in the coming summer to try to evolve a system for tracking the 3000-mile-an-hour missiles by radar and other means and for determining their arc of flight in advance. . “Once we accomplish this, he said, “it will be possible to design a counter-attack rocket which will be controlled by radar and be capable of intercepting an enemy rocket at a pre-determined point in ita course. Ordnance experts said the army, with the assistance of German scientists, has assembled more than 15 V-2 bombs brought from Germany in preparation for the test. They predicted that because of recent improvements the rockets will reach 90 miles into the stratosphere, compared with a 60mile altitude reached in attacks on London, Antwerp, and Liege. Every known means of radar detection, including devices recently used in contacting the moon, will be used in an effort to keep a finger on. the V-2’s during flight.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24815, 4 March 1946, Page 5
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