Good evening. I hope youll excuse all this but i have been taking some time off from my job to look into something important to all of us that seems to be confused. What i mean is missiles, highperformance airplanes. Why do we have so many . Where are we going with all this. A fellow asked me that in london not long ago. Ansell give him a simple answer and thats the reason for all this homework. It seems to me that we have to understand just what we are building, how each of these missiles and airplanes and to whydetermined strength, and we have developed them and what we do. What i wishtell you i had been able to tell that follow in london not long ago. Some of you may remember, i was a bomber pilot in world war ii. I was back from the air force inventory was a simple one. There was longrange heavy bombers, i flew one of these an old be 24. This is one of my handiwork of airplane building. This is the oldfashioned wood type. This is my group tail markings lack background lacks right. Drivers, the Fighter Pilots did. These were the trucks that deliver the payload act in those days when the air force constant of Strategic Bombing was the supply. Related fighter support in order to get through. Fighters that cleared the way for us in hamburg, cologne. Sometimes it took some clearing. They were fighting aggressive or defensively, theyre always clear they were fighters, and they fought. To,e were other airplanes, Medium Bombers like that b 25. There were tactical aircraft use in support of ground operations use as artillery by the infantry. Aircraft how many models we had been, it was easy to understand what each was for, how all of them Work Together to knock the enemy out of the air. Now, it doesnt seem that simple anymore. , times haveassed changed quite a bit. Now we have missiles and yet we sorted airplanes, highperformance jets. You are tempted to think that one or the other might be able to do the job alone, airplanes without missiles or missiles without airplanes. Hundreds of words have been written about the deterrence and Nuclear Weapons in the Ballistic Missile first is the bombers. Unless you are a careful reader and have time to think things through, though only real clear idea where libel to get is that you are confused because there are too many names, matador, sidewinder, snark 104, beaumont, why so much . 1 what is it all for . These weapons were together to defend the u. S. And deter an enemy attack. I will try to tell you. Lets begin with a heavy bomber. 2 was the heavy bomber in world war ii only more so. Its faster, carious a heavier payload with more destructive power in one then you could halt in all the b17s we had in 1944. Times have changed and the bombers speed and helped her to death and greatly in greece. 58 increased the speed and range and altitude capability that cannot they heavy bomber down. Or any ground to air intercept muscle missile or rocket that the other. May have is what worries all about. Its always the same story of action counter action, of a new weapon designed to catch the enemy offguard. Every aircraft and every missile we have today has been developed within this pattern to prepare or to meet some new unexpected weapon. 52. At this beef iss bomber or the later58 vulnerable to interception or two ground to air weapons. Our problems are with weapons that both extend their rangeand increase their to help them avoid the targets. To canupersonic air carry a Nuclear Warhead. That means hitting the target on the nose from safety several. Hundred miles away you know what that means to the men on these bomber missions. Chance of getting home and you want to remember how remember how important these men were to us. Missilesinental listed Ballistic Missiles are built whats long range bombers are supposed to do. It carries a bomb hundreds of miles away. Why use it and why risk any of these men, why not use the missile and let it go in that . Longrange intercontinental Ballistic Missile has one advantage over manned aircraft. You can get it up in a matter of minutes and racing towards the target as long as you are sure you want it to go where it is going and do what it has to do. You cannot call it back and you cant change its course. Directmander can closely the flight of every single bomber and the air night and day aroundtheclock. Headquarters knows where the bombers are. Each individual aircraft flights of three or more squadron rings or the whole command can be deployed as any specific in any threat develops and wants launched the whole attack can be diverted. Thats what the pilot adds to your defense. Flexibility and the further capability no missile has of seeking out targets that are precisely known or cant be pinpointed on a map. With this added ability to observe and to think about what and to makend knows a decision based on all the evidence he has, the pilot is your best guarantee that there wont be any mistakes. The chips are down, he and his crew are there to deliver the load. And yet the missiles are there to back them up. Longrange Strategic Missiles already fire down the entire 5000 mile test range successfully fired. Some of them already in the air force inventory. Withs coming along planned, designed incorporating everything we have learned from every missile we have designed and built. Here is one we have already got launched by rocket engines , in parting speed faster than 10,000 miles an hour this weapon throws a Nuclear Warhead more than 5000 miles with accuracy. Is an evolutionary step towards more effective muscles we will have a short a few short years from now. Even know we have the icbm, we bomber. Ve the d47 i think it is one of the finest their plans built. It has been the allaround workhorse of the air command capable of delivering nuclear natons, from the bases of and other allied countries to almost any target we have to strike. Icbm, there are intermediate range missiles supporting the b 47, operating vessels that supply 1500 miles or more with which we and our s counter threat along the same perimeter. Right here in begins to get complex. There are other missiles working with the aircraft. Its not just a question of having a longrange bomber and a missile or having a b47, too. These weapons alone are not enough to guarantee survival. Carrye its big enough to auxiliary equipment and crew this bomber has a good chance of survival at any operating altitude. The crew can select the best altitude for penetrating enemy defenses and put the load exactly where they want it to go. This equipment includes diversionary equipment which we can launch from the air to expose, decoy or destroy ground weapons. Ersionary or counter med countermeasures weapon just like the manned bomber they Work Together to get the payload through. Is the role of the air force today. Icbms have put the u. S. Well within range of almost anybody that would want to take a crack at it. Its longrange capability has so far prevented that. Defense commands responsibility to make sure if the other fellow decides to come over he will get through. Enters our radar at the air Defense System is at once alerted. They scramble to make a positive identification, if it is a hostile intruder, the pilot notifies the defense commander and they attack. Other filer interceptor aircraft scrambled so that maximum attrition will be before the enemy can get in range to release its missiles. The old machine gun on the rocket with interceptors in world war ii are obsolete now. Today these aircraft carried missiles like this one, and infrared homing missile or this one here another infrared homing or target seeking guided missile. Some consider it the best of all the airlines missiles. This is a rocket with a atomic warhead, a highly effective method. But if the attacking force still in a trace our surface to air missiles take over the brunt of the attack. Dependable and a accurately guarded guided range of two 200 miles. It has a 400 mile capability in the near future. In addition to this range, it is a good weapon where fighter cannot operate very well. Enables employment of fighter interceptors and surfacetoair missiles in the same as theys the same air space. They are complementary to each other in defending us against air attack. Defense command store today. , well it is. Ssential, it is tailored for local or small wars during 1968 the composite airstrike diploid tofiremen the middle east and far east in support of our national policy. Situation f100 b aircraft flew from Myrtle Beach South Carolina 2 in a little over 12 hours. It is a multipurpose weapon. It delivers Nuclear Weapons straight down to the target. And by over the shoulder bombing. The Tactical Fighter also has air superiority michigan mission. Has a key round support role to contain visit. Forces of an enemy. Missiles, thatal support tactical aircraft. One, electronically controlled from the ground it can travel five or 600 mao zedong altitude of 35,000 feet to carry a Nuclear Warhead deep into enemy territory. Arember of these groups already deployed in europe and one on formosa or whats it called . Calling any of these weapons by name because there are so many of them. You of heard the same weapons anded falcon and hound dog beaumont and matador it all helps to add to the confusion. Why so many . Why are there sometimes to, maybe even three different kinds of a missile type. Im they all icbms . They are but they are related. They are not identical twins. Represents a new generation in the telescope through which we have lived since 1954. Some are good and some are better and if you are not good at all because they have been made obsolete. Each one of them was the best weapon we could develop for a specific purpose at the time each of these was designed and engineered. Taking all of them together, each of these weapons has been and many of them still are important brexit the defensive war which up until now we have managed to keep the peace. Missiles and aircraft blending together, complementing each other where do we go from here . What Weapon Systems will be be using five or 10 years from now and over what ranges and at whats been sent out to choose will we have to defend ourselves then . Is it possible that our lowflying slow moving atomic powered manned airplane, or high flaying fastmoving missiles and planes where building now . Maybe. It sounds like its a bomber pilots dream. Inbe that would plug more a free worlds defensive war. Maybe the trend will be still up, thats where its always been ever since this. I didnt build this long, its too tough. But its a model of a Wright Brothers airplane. Then the trend has and up to increase speed increasing altitude, they are flying higher and faster than anything else. In the early days of world war 10, 15,000hts above feet we encountered something new. Because of the thinning out of the air, pilots and crew men first began to take their own ground level atmosphere with them. The race for speed and how the two went on. For quite some time now, the military aircraft has been a sealed bid traveling at altitudes which man cannot survive without wearing special close and bringing oxygen webcam. Is withinging oxygen them. Space, whatss the difference between air and space . Where does air in which the air force has always worked come to end . Nd air and space are the same thing. Maybe as far as flight is concerned air force crews have been making space or space equal blood flights ever since they sinceheir natural habitat 1942 or 1943. Todays highperformance jet aircraft is more than ever a space aircraft. Mach one in excess of and altitudes over 30,000 feet is very much like the experience tomorrow will experience. Future, racing into the the airplane and the Ballistic Missile come closer and closer together. Evolving towards the ideal longrange Weapon System combining the advantages of both, when you can get right off the ground at maximum speed. Recall. That you can you give this experimental airplane the speed and housing thise missile has, or put control panel detached now, put them back into the missiles airframe and then give the pilot the equipment he needs to withstand acceleration and he and to overcome weightlessness of zero whenever the gravity andwill lick these problems you wont have a man and a missile you will have an air force pilot in a spacecraft. Men will be in space. That may happen a whole lot sooner than we think it will. Is for us what the unknown land once was, the uncharted sea. All she hase is and ever done compels them to move. Like the explorers of the past, he may have to fight out there. Thats why the air force has to do what it has always done, go higher and faster than the other fellow. Cons, will, if it not confine itself to air but will expand into billions of. Space miles. Defending us today and manned spacecraft tomorrow. I dont know whether i have answered all the questions we started out with. 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