Present Day Electronic Weapons
Paralleled Only in Science Fiction
WASHINGTON —Combat sold
iers of the future will have an ar
senal of advanced electronic wea
pons equaled only in the pages of
science fiction, the U. S. Signal
Corps announced on its 98th birth
day.
Many of these futuristic devices,
vital to swift atomic age maneu
vers, have been developed and
proved in the past two years by
the U. S. Army Signal Research
and Development Laboratory at
Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and
the Army Electronic Proving
Ground at Fort Huachuca, Ari
zona.
In the early days of the Signal
Corps urgent combat messages
were sent from mountain to moun
tain hy flashing mirrors, sema
phore flags, or blinker lights.
Wire telegraph was the only way
to send a message a great distance,
•tance.
Contrast this with the high-ef
ficiency communications systems
of today and tomorrow that use
radio and wire equipment to pro
vide almost-instantaneous con
tact between forward elements
and headquarters on the battle
field. Consider the remote con
trol drones which, equipped with
special Army Signal Corps cam
eras, can soar far into enemy ter
ritory to obtain valuable informa
tion—without endangering a pilot.
The U. S. soldier will have the
most refined communications sys
tem in the world, capable of de
livering vital messages thousands
of miles in seconds when neces
sary.. One new radio for tKe co
ordinated network is so powerful
that it can reach any spot on
earth. Another bounces signals
off the troposphere, using inflat
able dish antennas for extended
range.
All army radios, from the small
est portable field radio to the gi
ant world spanner, complement
each other to form a swift, reli
able communications team.
To protect our troops from ene
my mortar fire, a new radar with
built-in electronic “brain” can pin
point the mortar nest after track
ing only one projectile. Its read
ings guide our artillery to wipe
out the position.
Another radar, the silent sentry,
can spot enemy troops moving in
the dark. This is the smallest
known military radar.
Future foot soldiers will also
be protected biy a fountain pen
sized radiation detector that slips
into the shirt pocket and warns of
dangerous atomic doses.
Even army atmosphere observ
ing has gone electronic. A special
military radar developed by the
Army Signal Corps can detect and
analyze rainstorms up to 200 miles
away—and can help to predict
within minutes when they will
strike. And an electronic equip
ment has been developed whose
high - speed “brain” computes
winds and other meteorogical con
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U it ions high aloftr using radio sig
nals sent down from a balloon.
The Army Signal Corps has de
veloped Missle Master, the air de
fense control center for Nike mis
sies. This system, complete with
computers and avanced search ra
dars, now stands guard over the
Washington-Baltimore area.
Army Signal Corps research and
development has produced other
futuristic devices: a camera that
can take a picture 30 miles away,
a tiny drone that takes TV pic
tures, a rugged radio that clips
on a soldiers belt, an ultra-high
speed teletypewriter, a method to
survey great distances by radar,
an advanced all-electronic tele
phone switchboard system, and
many others.
These advanced systems are de
signed to work in close coordina
tion with the army’s atomic
punch—its missle artillery, which
depends greatly on electronics for
guidance.
The Army Signals Corps in the
past two years has made contri
butions to pure scientific research,
destined to pave the way for even
more advanced field equipment.
For instance, Diana, the power
ful radar with its 50-foot dish an
tenna, has continualv beamed sig
nals at the moon to observe elec
tronic reflections. At its site the
first radar contact was made with
the moon in 1946. Since then, Di
ana observations have pointed the
way to important radio advances.
The newer and bigger space sen
try radar with a 60-foot dish an
tenna has been used to calibrate
world-wide satellite minitract sta
tions.
In studies of upper atmospheric
conditions, army scientsists have
fired a series of research rockets
to great altitudes. Army solar bat
tery systems were sent high aloft
to find out how they would work
in a future satellite and are now
being used in the Vanguard.
In recent satellite efforts,, Army
(Signal Corps research has provid
ed high-yield batteries and rugg
ed electronics parts and systems
for the vehicles. It also provided
valuable tracking data.
And one of the future Van
guard satellites, a 21-inch sphere
that will send back electronic
images of world-wide cloud distri
bution, is being instrumented by
the Army Signal Corps.
These recent advances, in addi
tion to playing a vital part in
long-range military superiority,
have provided many civilian bene
fits. They have made possible bet
ter home and beach radios, im
proved batteries and tubes, more
reliable TV sets, and in general
have boosted the quality of al
most all commercial electronic de
vices.
The U. S. Army Alaska Coih
munications System, the Signal
Corps unit which provides com
mercial telephone and telegraph
service to and within Alaska, uti
lizes the modern techniques de
veloped by Fort Monmouth and
American industry) to provide the
Territory of Alaska with the latest
in communication facilities.
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