The Missile Navy is a late-1960s film reported by Chet Huntley that presents viewers with a history of rocket propulsion and missile development. The film opens with a shot of the Navy’s nuclear-powered attack carrier Enterprise at sea. On the ship, men run to their positions and a fighter jet is fitted with guided missiles. Navy jets take off from the carrier (01:58) and fly through the air. Chet Huntley reports on the deck of the ship. Men in the “nerve center” of the ship monitor radar equipment and communicate with pilots. Rocket-powered missiles emerge on the deck of the Enterprise. The film then shows viewers footage of naval battles during WWII (04:39). A submarine fires a torpedo. A depth charge is detonated. Navy gunners shoot down fighter planes. The film then takes viewers back to the 1920s. Dr. Robert H Goddard works on a liquid-fueled rocket with other men (06:36). An early rocket is launched. Germany’s Fritz von Opel and others work on developing rocket missiles (07:56). The film then shows a German V-1 Flying Bomb, as well as a V-2 rocket being fired; footage shows the destruction following Nazi Germany’s rocket attacks on Britain. A 1941 photo shows the launch of the first regeneratively cooled liquid-fueled rocket engine. Men load some of the first Navy rockets into a battery (10:33). The liquid-thrust rocket Gorgon (Gorgon II-A) is attached to a plane (11:08). Lark, a guided missile, is tested at the Naval Air Test Center in California (11:28). A Viking rocket is launched (12:12). The film shows slow-motion footage of the firing of a rocket-powered missile. Men work on Bumblebee surface-to-air missiles. Planes fly through the air fitted with Bullpup A, a deadly air-to-surface tactical missile (13:51). Footage shows Marines storming a beach. The air-to-air tactical missile Sidewinder is carted out onto the flight deck (16:23) and is loaded onto a jet. A Sidewinder is fired from a jet. A Sparrow 3 is prepared for loading onto a plane (18:44). Talos rockets are launched from the carrier (20:00); Terrier rockets are also fired from the ship. A Tartar missile is fired from another ship. The film then shows viewers the weapons being developed for anti-submarine warfare: ASROC is a weapons system used to fire on submarines using either a depth charge or an acoustic homing torpedo. A submarine surfaces (22:21). A Navy sub fires a SUBROC missile. The film shows the computer console for the system. A SUBROC missile leaves the water and flies through the air. A nuclear-powered sub armed with the Polaris missile cruises along the surface of the ocean. A Polaris missile is launched from the submarine (24:27). The film ends with a shot of what appears to be the Enterprise cruising at sea.

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