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UK's Defence Heads Review Old Policies By KEN METHERAL Canadian Press Staff Writer LONDON (CP) = Britain's de- fence chiefs have launched an in- tensive review of thelr long-term {policies because of the flopd of Imew Information being made available to them from the | United States, One result may be a slowing down in the wholesale switch to missiles implied in the last two defence white papers. This would allow the United Kingdom to de- {vote a greater portion of her de- {fence budget to the development 'and stockpiling of conventional Weapons, Defence Minister Duncan {Sandys and his advisers are known to be surprised and de- lighted at the speed with which the U.S, has thrown open the doors of its armament cupboards a since the two countries reached agreement last August on the sharing of defence secrets, REDUCE COSTS British experts have already been given access to weapons and techniques they didn't know existed, The extent of co-opera- tion taking place is giving rise + to hopes Britain may be able to make substantial reductions in the cost of her own research pro gram by eliminating duplication in the efforts of the two coun tries. "We would be bloody fools if we didn't revise our thinking in the light of the wealth of new infor mation now available to us," a defence spokesman said It is by no means a one-sided exchange, The U.S, is understood to be impressed by the amount of research and development work British scientists have achieved with limited resources Considerable joint research now tention is being paid to British ideas about guidance systems for rockets. At- present, Britain's offensive potential is based on her strate- gic force of V-bombers--Valiants, Victors and Vuleans--buttressed by the land-based American mis sile Thor, MISSILE SWITCH Until the current review started, forward defence plan- ning envisaged a fairly rapid re- lacement of manned bombers {by advanced British missiles, Sandys and his colleagues on the defence committee now are | considering whether land - based | missile requirements for the next 10 years or so should be scaled down or cut out altogether, Bome advisers are understood to favor policy under which Britain {would rely on manned bombers for the next decade, then switch straight to missiles, | Most of Britain's long - term missile research has been de- voted to land - based weapons, such as the Bluestreak rocket, using liquid propellants, But the | | planners are impressed by U.S, development work on the solid. fuelled Polaris missile, "designed to be fired from a submarine This has special attractions for an island power such as Britain [Tt both maintains the traditional role of the navy in the country' defence and does away with the need for costly and vulnerable rocket-launching bases on land [NEW BOMBER? Understandably, one of chief advocates of a policy based on the Polaris missile and nu clear-powered submarines is Ad- miral of the Fleet Earl Mount. batten of Burma, who many ob. erver helieve will eventually William Dickson as chief of the |defence staff, But the handsome, blunt-speak- ling earl has lost his backroom fight to force a modified version of the navy's NA-39 carrier-based jot fighter-bomber on the RAF as a replacement for the Can- berra bomber, The defence com- mittee has accepted the RAF's view that the NA-39 is not suit- able for its purposes and now is considering the advisability of authorizing development of a new | supersonic bomber and transport aircraft known only as Opera-| tional Requirement 330, It, as seems likely, the defence committee decides to delay a fi- nal decision on the type of mis- sile, to be ultimately selected pending further development work on both sides of the Atlan- tie, the RAF will stand a good |chance of getting its supersonic plane, All three services will prob- ably be asked to reduce expendi THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursdey, December 18, 1". 27 Newspaper Head | Comments On Gift Receiving QUEBEC (CP) -- AF. 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