SUBMARINE FORCES
Comparison Ut Strength (N Z. Press Assn—Copyright) WASHINGTON, July 16. The Soviet Union's construction of missile-flring submarines has been increased to a rate of eight to 10 a year, according to United States defence officials. If this rate continues. Russia's missile-firing submarine fleet could achieve parity with the United States Polaris submarine force of 41 by mid-1973, they say. That would be a year earlier than the Secretary of Defence (Mr Melvin Laird) forecast only three months ago. when he calculated Russian submarine construction as running at about six to eight a year.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32351, 17 July 1970, Page 4
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