Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-28
US. Novy


concentrate on the submarine Our force be pre-
pared to fight anywhere in the world The Sovets, if
they fight will be fighting in Europe and Asia. Further
more while they the seas, they do not depend on
them as their bloodstream The Free World does; it
must trade stay strong. If the Sovies could COM
mand the seas they could isolate from allies.
The USSR recognizes this in their concentration on
submarines, about 500 against cur no.
The American people worry lot about those 500
subs and don't blame them worry lot about them
myself In any future the danger to ships at is
going to be great We will lose Ships good many ships.
But does this helpless before submarines?
Do we abandon ship? We do not! And say it in
reference to guided missiles and H-bombs as WELL The
Navy can defend itself against all three. That fact is in
my estimation of the great deterents to the About
atomic all dread.
Navy OF The Future
What's the explanation? In BRIEF it's the old story Of
weapons versus armor Throughout history, each new
weapon has provoked improvement in defense. The
same thing is happening today and will continue to
happen In 10 years. you will hardly know your Navy.
Its ships will almost all be atomic powered 1t will have
struck balance between size and quality; it will be
smaller and tougher. The bateShip will be gone we
have only two left but the smaller ships, the
destroyers and fgates will be armed with guided mis-
SieS. the frgateS entirely so, without gun aboard.
The fleets will be able to stay out longer because
they'll be able TO destroy submarines planes and mis-
ses greater and greater distances because they'll be
heavily equipped with automatic data computers -
electronic brains s. to help them in this job. Some Of
our equipment such those computers and the 1000
miIe-per-hour planes, is so marvellous that haven't
yet learned to use it TO full capacity.
The H-bomb makes the massive invasionS we knew in
World War II impossible, but, with our new Navy, they
will longer be necessary. task force will be able
to send Marines by hecopter the obstacles, behind
the lines. 1t could also drop weapons to our allies
And everything else in the Navy is changing. so
the task force We thought Of it as tight defen-
sive circle much like walled city, When you think OF
task force today you think of ocean area the
size Of New York State [See chart at eftl The most
powerful H-bOmb known would get only one Of our
ships. We've got our distances figured.
And we've got our defenses, and we think they're
good Ones against these super weapons you hear
so much about. There are a few things to remember
about these tabled weapons:
They must be aimed, and proper aiming requires an
exact knowledge not only Of the firing location but Of
the location Of the target WELL baistics missile has
range and speed, but it cannot anticipate a moving
target homng missile must be fired from in close :
close enough for to poster the devil out Of whoevers
firing it, sub or arplane. We can bother him enough to
upset his accuracy. And after he's fired his hoHl-
ing missile, we've got devices to fool it - false heat,
it homes on heat, false - Continued on page ~