Show Guided Bomb Ready Soon Air Materiel Chief Fixes Year Deadline WASHINGTON D. D C. C The C.-The The chief of the air materiel command has predicted that the air force would have ready for operational use within with with- in a year a pound bomb that can be guided all the way to the target Gen Joseph T. T head of the air materiel command also said S 1 United States aircraft engineers engineers engineers engi engi- and manufacturers have the know how to produce faster than sound combat planes now But he said the air force planned to wait until at least three more experimental experimental mental models similar to the supersonic supersonic supersonic super super- sonic X-l X rocket plane had been tested The X X-l-A being built now Is designed designed designed de de- de- de signed to fly ly 1700 miles an hour Sound speed at sea level is about miles an hour The X X-l has been flown many times at speeds several hundred miles an hour faster than sound 2 The conventional machine guns gunson on fighter tIghter planes will be replaced t u L a relatively tune nine with rocket missiles having a built- built in radar homing device This device will guide the missiles to an enemy bomber regardless of ot its evasive action These rockets said will wUI be launched several miles from an enemy bomber will track it down at supersonic speed and explode explode ex ex- ex within lethal range by means of a Q proximity fuse 3 American research engineers have made great progress recently re toward development of devices devices devices de de- de- de vices to guide missiles with speeds up to miles an hour and ranges of miles But pinpoint accuracy accuracy accuracy ac ac- ac- ac curacy hasn't yet been reached said and push button warfare with such guided missiles is lIis still In the rather distant future |