Activation of new aaa units - Air Defense Artillery

36 THE COAST ARTILLERY JOURNAL July-August
in the army, since it means using two men to do the work of
one. What we need in a modem army that would have to
fight overseas is a large number of enlisted men as well as
officers who would be technicians in their own branch of
the service, and who would know a language well enough
to be able to make use of it whenever it would be necessary
to do so. This is where all of us language teachers can help.
VVeshould strive to give our students such a solid founda-
tion that, for years, they should remain able to read a text
at sight, to write a few understandable lines, and', after a
few weeks in a certain country, to carry on a conversation
in the language of that country. I think that we can do so in
the two years that we are given to teach a language to most
university students. And in doing so, we would do a great
deal to help serve our country if a new war comes which
requires sending our troops overseas."
New Rockets Get Test At Aberdeen
Eighty per cent of America's predesign testing of supersonic
missiles and special weapons is being done at Aberdeen,
Maryland.
Also, the Ordnance Department disclosed the 6600 persons
there are 'working on projects which include:
Supersecret projects for the Atomic Energy Commission.
Development of a "mother and daughter" rocket with
more than twice the present 250-mile range of the \7-2rocket.
Tests of the Navy' s ~ eptune Rocket being built by the
Glenn L Martin Company.
Improvement and development of more conventional
weapons of a less spectacular nature.
It \vas Major General A. B. Quinton, Jr., 'who disclol'ed
officiallvfor the first time that the Ballistic Research Laboratories
a~e\vorking "in close harmony \'\.'iththe Army, Navy,
Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission."
He declined to amplify beyond this brief statement:
"That doesn't mean we know all the Atomic Energy
Commission knm'\'s,but \ve do do some work for them."
Colonel Leslie E. Simon, director of the Ballistic Laboratories,
said that during the early postwar period "the country
depended almost exclusively" on the Aberdeen laboratories
for useful supersonic measurements.
Even today, he continued, 80 per cent of the models of
the Armv, :;\Jan' and Air Force come here for testing before
final designs ar~ prepared.
Dr. A C. Charter, chief of the free-flight aerod)-'"'Ilamics
range, described development under way for a "mother and
daughter rocket."
It is planned, he explained, to fit a \VAC Corporal rocket
onto a \7-2 rocket in place of a warhead. Tests of such a
rocket mav be held \vithin a year at \"hite Sands, ~e\\-
~Iexico, it was said. -
The 'YAC Corporal, America's first high-altitude rocket,
is designed to rise about 60 miles in the air by itself and
tveighs 700 pounds.
The mother-and-daughter rocket would then be able to
climb several hundred miles into the air, while the missile's
range \\'ould be 500 miles.
Dr. L A. Delsasso, chief of the full-scale free-flight ballistic
measurements of guided missiles for the Army, said that
the present extreme range of the \7-2 i~ 250 miles. The
highest \7-2 fired in America reached 114 miles.
Dr. Delsasso discounted the use of such rockets for military
p~uposes iri the immediate future, but said they would
be used. mainly for gathering data on flights through the
upper au.
According to the Aberdeen scientists, the Martin Xeptune
rocket should be ready for testing some time next fall.
Designed as an' experimental shipboard missile, its yertical
range is placed at 200 miles and horizontal range at
400 miles.
Dr. R. H. Kent, director of the Aberdeen supersonic \\"ind
tunnels, said that, given enough money, it would be possible
to build a satellite missile in five wars.
Such a world-circling missile i~ extremely unlikely to be
produced for many years, ho\'\'ever, he added.
In discussing the possible uses of supersonic missiles a5
atomic-bomb carriers, Dr. Delsasso said that at "the range of
200 miles an atomic warhead \YOuldbe ideal" for a missile
of the V-2 type.
Other sections of the laboratory are working on other
problems related not only to ordnance and missile problems,
but the problems of supersonic flight.
Research at Aberdeen is still lagging behind ?emand,
despite the use of electronic computing and calculating machines;
cameras that take pictures at the rate of on:millionth
of a second; gauges that measure pressure in millions
of pounds, and tunnels \\ith wind speeds equivalent
to 3040 miles an hour.
According to Colonel Simon, the laboratories can meet
only 25 per cent of the demand ..
At present there are 6600 persons on the post, indudlIl~
3400 enlisted men, 500 officers and 2700 civilians.-_4rI1lJ
Times.