ARMY'S PERSHING MISSILE GUIDANCE PLATFORM BUILT IN "SUPER CLEAN"
ROOM
---WARHEAD
The U. S. Army's Pershing missile represents a dramatically new
con-cept in warfare.
Sometimes called "a shoot and scoot" missile by engineers of The
Martin Company, prime contractor for the project, the weapon can be
transported to an unprepared site by an erector-launcher and fired
in a matter of minutes.
The guidance system for Pershing must be extremely accurate.
Every precaution is taken to insure pre-cision in assembling its
components, some of which are built to tolerances as fine as 10
million!hs of an inch!
Heart of the guidance system are miniat urized air bearing
gyros.
Bendix, with its long experience in precision manufacturing, was
selected to build the Pershing inertial guidance stable platform wh
ich includes these critical components. To avoid contamination,
components
are assem bled in a "super clean", air-conditioned "building
within a build-ing," equipped wi th "airlock doors" which make it
impossible for dirt and dust to enter. Technicians wear lint-free
suits and gloves when working in the clean area. Tests show the
area is kept 99.95 % free of dust particles !arger than
three-tenths of a micron (12 millionths of an inch).
In the missile a nd space fie ld, Bendix developed and built an
in-genious device which can steer and control a satellite in space;
telemeter-ing systems which transmit 500 chan-nels of information
back to ground stations, and many other major missile systems.
Bendix also is prime con.:.
... Jlcf~ AVIATION CORPORATION Fisher Bldg., Detroit 2,
Mich.
A thousand diversified products
TARGET SEEKER GUIDANCE TELEMETERING
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GROUND SUPPORT LAUNCHERS RADAR COMMUNICATIONS COMPUTERS
TELEMETERING
This illusfra fion represents no particular missile, but shows
the general /ocation of various air borne Bendix syslems and lheir
components.
tractor for the N avy's Talos missi le, principal armament of
the new fleet of missile cruisers, and is also pr ime contractor
for the Eagle, the Navy's newest long-range, air-to-air
missile.
---OUH NEl.,IIBOHS. NORTH AND SOU'l'H-------.
QandA about
The 60's
Will Canada's boom surge into the Sixties? Nothing is in sight
to stop it.
Will Canada still be a ferti le fleld for U.S. investors? Yes.
Ccmadiansre-sist American control of their indus-tries , b11t
welcome Ame rican dollars.
How about a Latin American boom? Not likely. Most Latin
count.ries will probably re-mai11 1111dercleveloped for at ln 1st
another 1,,11 years. Cnatro cxPOunru. :,t a 1ne
