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With the September 1947 formation of the USAF, in late 1947 the Holloman range and the White Sands Proving Ground merged to become the New Mexico Joint Guided Missile Test Range (later renamed White Sands Missile Range), [5]: 248 and the renamed Holloman Air Force Base (13 January 1948) supported WSMR launch complexes (Launch Complex 33, etc ...
The United States' National Radar Cross-section Facility (commonly abbreviated as RATSCAT) is located at Holloman AFB, New Mexico. The Lockheed Have Blue and Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk have been tested at this site.
[7]: 248 The former USAAF air base was designated Holloman Air Force Base on 14 January 1948, and the 2754th Air Force Base was its host unit after being established from the 4145th AFBU on 15 August 1948 (the 2754th AFB unit's "Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron" were established by 15 December 1948).
Holloman Air Force Base will be the permanent home to 26 F-16 fighter jets that have been housed at the air base since 2017, and potentially more. F-16 training program at Holloman Air Force Base ...
The next major track extension occurred in 1974 when the rails from the Edwards Air Force Base test track were shipped to Holloman and added to the existing tracks to give a new total length of 50,771 ft (15,475 m). During this upgrade, a third rail, approximately 15,000 ft (4,600 m), was added for high-speed, narrow-gauge sleds.
Dec. 6—Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico will be the permanent base for a training squadron of 26 F-16 fighter jets. The Alamogordo-area base supports about 21,000 active duty ...
These organizations were combined to form the nucleus of a Holloman AFB tenant organization, the 6585th Test Group. In 1976, the Air Force Special Weapons Center was disestablished, and the 6585th Test Group at Holloman became part of the 3246th Test Wing, Armament Development and Test Center at Eglin AFB, FL. The Group was inactivated on 30 ...
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