• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • "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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