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ERCS was a rocket or missile that carried a UHF transmitter as a payload instead of a nuclear warhead. In the event of a nuclear attack, ERCS would launch the UHF transmitter into low space to transmit an Emergency Action Message to Strategic Air Command units. [3] [4] [5] [6]
The Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum is a museum focusing on aircraft and nuclear missiles of the United States Air Force during the Cold War. It is located near Ashland, Nebraska, along Interstate 80 southwest of Omaha. The objective of the museum is to preserve and display historic aircraft, missiles, and space vehicles, and provide ...
Command midcourse and Terminal Semi-active radar homing: Mach 3.5: FIM-92 Stinger: Infrared homing: Mach 2.54: MIM-104 Patriot: Command midcourse and Terminal Semi-active radar homing: Mach 5: RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile: Infrared homing: Mach 2.5: RIM-156A Standard: Command midcourse and Terminal Semi-active radar homing: Unverified ...
The LGM-30F Minuteman II was an improved version of the Minuteman I missile. Its first test launch took place on September 24, 1964. Development on the Minuteman II began in 1962 as the Minuteman I entered the Strategic Air Command's nuclear force. Minuteman II production and deployment began in 1965 and completed in 1967.
Strategic Air Command deployed 13 operational Atlas ICBM squadrons between 1959 and 1962. Each of the three missile variants, the Atlas D, E, and F series, were deployed and based in progressively more secure launchers.
Operation Looking Glass – American command and control center; EC-135 – Command and control aircraft by Boeing; Boeing E-6 Mercury – Airborne command post aircraft by Boeing based on 707 airframe; Emergency Rocket Communications System – US Strategic Forces system to communicate with ballistic missiles in use from 1963–1991
The Douglas AIR-2 Genie (previous designation MB-1) was an unguided air-to-air rocket with a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead. [1] It was deployed by the United States Air Force (USAF 1957–1985) and Canada (Royal Canadian Air Force 1965–1968, Air Command 1968–1984) [2] during the Cold War. Production ended in 1962 after over 3,000 were made ...
The Northrop SM-62 Snark is an early-model intercontinental range ground-launched cruise missile that could carry a W39 thermonuclear warhead.Though the Snark was in training by the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command from 1958 through 1961, it was only deployed as an operational missile for less than a year during 1961.