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Yeah, Only Scene one. Take 1. 14. 75 Smathers. How do you do? Ladies and gentlemen, we're here today a great deal of talk about the missile program. We hear a lot about the Army's Jupiter Sea and the Air Force for which you're being fired from Kid Canaveral.

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Actually, we haven't heard very much thus far about the Navy's part of this missile program. But in fact, the Navy has a very important part of the program. And I'm delighted to have as my guest this time Commander Keith Leisure from the Navy, who's going to explain to us some of the Navy's work in dismissal program?

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Uh, could you tell us what the Polaris How how is the Navy doing in the development of the Polaris, the Polaris missile system? Senator is coming along. It's about two years ahead of schedule and some of the components at the present time, and we sincerely believe that it will be ready before it's needed.

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Well, you know, there are many of us here in the Congress who have a lot of faith and confidence and what's going to the work that Polaris is supposed to do. Let me ask you this. Have you been able to shoot one yet? No, sir. The system as a whole is not completely operational yet and is not scheduled to be.

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Actually, the various components that make up the Polaris system are all being tested separately. At the present time, test vehicles have been fired successfully and test models have been launched successful. How is it the purpose to have the Polaris shot eventually from an underwater submarine? This is the intention of the system.

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The nuclear powered submarines today And this is a model of one of these nuclear powered submarines will be adapted and will launch the missiles from inside the submarine much in the manner of torpedoes today. Except that they the idea is to have them launched vertically from a position here amidships.

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How deep under the water under the surface of the water. Can you shoot this? Hilarious. I don't think anybody really knows the answer to that one yet till we get a few of them in the air. This is an artist concept of how such a system might look at the moment the bird left the coop, so to speak.

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And here is another picture showing it en route to outer space from the submarine. But we really don't know many of these details at this time. Now is it the hope that this missile, this Polaris missile that will be guided and directed completely from offices, you might say from instruments in the submarine?

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The Polaris is a ballistic missile, and that means it's target and its flight path are completely set at the moment it's fired. So all the submarine has to do is to reach the proper position, the proper depth and fire it once on the way, the missile can no longer be controlled.

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Now we have another type missile, which is the regular, too. And some of our submarines are being built to carry this miss. But that is not shot from submerged. No, this the submarine surfaces, fires this missile and submerges in a matter of minutes and then guides this missile on into the target.

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This is a guided missile as opposed to the Let me ask you this question. Do you think that you people are working fast enough giving it enough emphasis? This whole program of developing the Polaris Missile and these shoot from the submerged submarine. This is a very difficult question to answer.

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We'd have to know the plans on the other side in order to know whether or not we were doing it fast enough. The best thing that I can say on this is that we are as much as two years ahead of schedule on some phases of the project, and that sometime during 1960 the first submarine should go to see with a load of Polaris.

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Do you think that the Navy is asked for enough? Submarines are actually to carry these Polaris missiles? Once you reach a certain limit? It's a question of how many more are required. In other words, it's your view that the present time you have asked for enough, I think personally, sir, that one Polaris submarine at sea would be a tremendous deterrent to an enemy that might want to attack us.

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Well, thank you very much, Commander, for this information. Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, for looking in