GUIDED MISSILES
SECRET MISSION SHIPS SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18. New equipment for a secret mission in the Pacific this spring is being installed in the Navy’s guidedmissiles ship Norton Sound, but the Navy has refused to give details of it. The vessel, which is a converted . seaplane tender of. 14,000 tons, is the Navy’s principal test ship for guided missiles, rockets and other weapons. It has fired guided missiles 70 miles into the sky and made cosmic ray research from' the. Equator to near the North Pole. It' is understood that the results of the tests will be applied in equipping the 45,000 ton battleship Kentucky, with guided missiles, instead of big guns. Targets for the vessel’s guided missiles and rockets include pilotless planes.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 107, 18 February 1950, Page 5
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124GUIDED MISSILES Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 107, 18 February 1950, Page 5
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