The Army announced last week that it was equipping units with two new tactical rockets, each fitted to carry either atomic or conventional (TNT) warheads: ¶The "Corporal," a huge supersonic rocket designed to strike selected targets up to 100 miles behind enemy lines. Remotecontrolled, it is a bigger, surface-to-surface cousin of the Army's high-altitude "Nike" antiaircraft guided missiles.
¶The "Honest John" artillery rocket, smaller and more mobile, with a 15-mile range for battlefield support of infantry. A freeflight missile, uncontrolled by electronic devices, it is aimed like a conventional artillery piece but...
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