"Polaris" itself was an operational system of four Resolution-class submarines, each armed with 16 UGM-27 Polaris A-3 ballistic missiles, with each missile able to deliver three ET.317 thermonuclear warheads around a single target.
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Robert McNamara was highly critical of the US bomber fleet, which he saw as obsolete in an age of Inter-continental ballistic missiles.
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With this range, the V bombers would have to fly only a few hundred miles from their bases before being in range for an attack on Moscow.
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