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Show Million Being For Pershing Improvemirtfs ABM3T-TIMES By „ Times Stoff Writer 26 Jan 66 WASHINGTON - More than $40 million will be spent by the Army for improvements in the Pershing:, missile system. Despite repeated reports that the 400-mile-teTOge of the Pershing is being extended, offi- cials said "there is no change in the missile itself." Under the better Pershing plan -officially known, as the Pershing 2A, the speed at which missilemen will be able to fire will be increased as will reliability. Basically, the idea is to allow a Pershing missile unit to pull into a site, fire faster than is now possible, and scoot away. _-.*** OFFICIALS SAID that "major system improvements will be centered in a new programmer test station-^which is a mobile missile fire control center-and a new erector launcher." Pershing, which had one of the best research and development firing marks ever recorded by an Army missile, is deployed with Seventh Army in Europe. The nuclear-tipped missile im: provement contract was awarded •to the Martin Go. and will be funded over a three year period. Pershing missile project manager is Col. Edwin I. Donley of Army Missile Command at Red-stone Arsenal. Efforts to extend the range of the Pershing have been under way for several years, but funds have not been approved for such changes. At one time the extension was an approved Defense Department program. |
