U.S. MISSILE PROGRAMME
Inter-Services Rivalry
(Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 1.
The Air Force Association said yesterday that reports of Army ballistic missile launching successes in Florida were “a mishmash of half-truths, outright fabrications and deliberately misleading implications.” A civilian organisation of Air Force supporters, the association said in an article in its magazine “Air Force” that Army-in-spired criticism forced the United States Defence Secretary (Mr Charles Wilson) to reverse an earlier decision approving the Air Force Thor intermediate range ballistic missile (over the Army-developed Jupiter. The magazine said the Army, at its Redstone (Alabama) Laboratory had used a “hand-made, hand-loaded, hand-fired muzzleloader approach” to the ballistic missile programme. This showed “the archaic, parochial, govern-mental-arsenal approach to weapons development, as exemplified in almost every piece of ordnance the Army currently possesses.
“In contrast, the Air Force ballistic missile programme represents the most ambitious research and development programme ever undertaken in this nation,” the magazine said.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28397, 2 October 1957, Page 13
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