A Minuteman Mobility Test Train was a railway train which carried LGM-30 Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles for the United States Air Force...
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and for which the USAF released details on 12 October 1959. Minuteman Mobility Test Trains were first exercised from 20 June to 27 August 1960 at Hill...
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Base, Ohio, in 1994 for public display. Trains portal BZhRK Barguzin LGM-30 Minuteman Minuteman Mobility Test Train - preceding pilot scale development in...
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Railroad car (redirect from Train car)
at Hill AFB, Utah, to conduct a series of deployments with a Minuteman Mobility Test Train. The first deployment ended June 27 after seven days of random...
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field test probably conducted by the Army Chemical Corps in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1955. Operation Big Star – Minuteman Mobility Test Train rail-mobile...
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LGM-118 Peacekeeper (section Minuteman)
into service in existing LGM-30 Minuteman silos, a temporary measure until final basing was decided. The first flight test took place in 1983, which included...
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Humvee (redirect from High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles)
prototype and offered it for testing in 1970. At least a dozen of these were built for testing under the High Mobility Combat Vehicle, or HMCV program...
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Division and by October of that year, an upgraded LGM-30F Minuteman II also replaced the Minuteman I missiles. Ellsworth soon became known as one of "The...
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and electronics components for ISS, F-22, and F-15, assembly and test for Minuteman III missile guidance system) Houston, Texas San Antonio, Texas (military...
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an air-launched ballistic missile test, where a C-5A Galaxy aircraft air dropped an 86,000-pound (39,000 kg) Minuteman ICBM from 20,000 feet (6,100 m) over...
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finally the Air Mobility Command (AMC) of the United States Air Force (USAF). The aircraft also served with airlift and air mobility wings of the Air...
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upgraded to the Minuteman II missiles, increasing the wing's capabilities to four missile squadrons equipped with a total of 200 Minuteman II missiles. In...
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California. In August 1965, the base received its first Minuteman II missile, shipped by train from Assembly Plant 77 at Hill AFB at Ogden, Utah. During...
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305th Air Mobility Wing is a United States Air Force strategic airlift and air refueling wing under the operational control of the Air Mobility Command...
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United States Air Force (section Rapid global mobility)
treatment facilities, using organic and/or contracted mobility airframes, with aircrew trained explicitly for this mission." Aeromedical evacuation forces...
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mobile Minuteman unit to be operational no later than January 1973....tests to be conducted, nicknamed "Operation Big Star." ... The Mobile Minuteman concept...
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Missile Wing (formerly 44th Strategic Missile Wing (ICBM—Minuteman)) - Aggressor Beware 46th Test Wing (formerly 46th Aerospace Defense Wing) - Support 48th...
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Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Systems Directorate (Hill AFB, Utah) Minuteman III Systems Directorate (Hill AFB, Utah) Nuclear Command, Control, and...
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310th Space Wing (redirect from 310th Training and Test Wing)
continued to train Minuteman crews and to test accuracy and reliability of Minuteman and Peacekeeper missiles. The 310 TTW also assisted in testing the Global...
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Bombers B-1B Lancer B-2 Spirit B-52H Stratofortress Command E-6B Mercury Helicopters UH-1N Iroquois Missiles LGM-30G Minuteman III...
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Apollo program (section Uncrewed flight tests)
Phillips, who gained a reputation for his effective management of the Minuteman program, as OMSF program controller. Phillips's superior officer Bernard...
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the F-35 Lightning II, F-16 Fighting Falcon, A-10 Thunderbolt II, and Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. The 75th Air Base Wing is responsible...
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"Short-Range Attack Missile," as well as the LGM-25C Titan II and LGM-30 Minuteman ICBMs, and the LIM-49 Spartan ABM. On 1 July 1971, Kirtland merged with...
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introduction of the SLBM made moot the mobility and survivability argument, and a newer generation of ICBMs, such as the Minuteman III, had the accuracy and speed...
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Air Force Base, South Dakota. The 317th Airlift Wing, assigned to Air Mobility Command Eighteenth Air Force, is a tenant unit and one of four world-wide...
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150 Minuteman missiles. As the first base to deploy Minuteman II missiles, Grand Forks hosted "Project Long Life II," a unique reliability test in which...
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United States Armed Forces (section Mobility Air Force)
"B-21 Raider". "B-52H Stratofortress". "LGM-30G Minuteman III". "Sentinel ICBM 'on track' for flight test this year: Senior USAF official". 16 February...
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support throughout the 1970s, including the dropping and test-firing of a LGM-30 Minuteman missile, the delivery of a 40-ton superconducting magnet from...
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established in 1932 as Barksdale Field, named for World War I aviator and test pilot Lieutenant Eugene Hoy Barksdale (1896–1926). Units at Barksdale include...
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Force Logistics Command (1946–1966), then as part of Military Airlift/Air Mobility Command (1966–1994). Major secondary missions of Norton Air Force Base...
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