Of current interest: Radar stations to track guided missiles are linked by polyethylene coaxial cable

Radar stations to track new supersonic guided missiles across the world´s longest proving ground are linked under the Atlantic Ocean by a slender coaxial cable insulated with Bakelite polyethylene. When completed, the new U. S. Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., will have a test range extending more than 1,000 miles southeast into the Caribbean, and this can be extended to 5,000 miles if necessary.