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The Air Force in 2008 maintained an arsenal of 1,140 AGM-86 ALCMs and 460 AGM-129 ACMs. The B-52 is the only platform for these missiles. [ 1 ] The reductions also include all but 528 nuclear-armed ALCMs and are in part a result of the SORT/Moscow Treaty (2002) requirement to get below 2,200 deployed nuclear weapons by 2012, with the ACM chosen ...
At the end of World War II, Grumman completed a major re-design of the aircraft for the USN as a Wright R-1820-56 powered monoplane amphibian. The new design was turned over to the Columbia Aircraft Corporation for development and construction so that Grumman could focus on the production of fighter aircraft for the USN.
Grumman OV-1 Mohawk [5] (Surveillance Airplane) [11] 132nd Aviation Company: Fort Benning An Khe Chu Lai [1] (Assault Support Helicopter) [11] 134th Aviation Company: Fort Bragg Can Tho [1] CV-2 Caribou [17]-1967: 12th Combat Aviation Group (Assault Helicopter) [13] 135th Aviation Company: Fort Benning Dong Ba Thin [1] UH-1 Huey [40] 12th ...
The S-3 was developed in response to the VSX program conducted by the U.S. Navy (USN) to procure a successor anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft to the Grumman S-2 Tracker. It was designed, with assistance from Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV), to be a carrier-based, subsonic, all-weather, long-range, multi-mission aircraft.
The 129th Rescue Squadron (129 RQS) is a unit of the California Air National Guard 129th Rescue Wing located at Moffett Federal Airfield, Mountain View, California. The 129th is equipped with the HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter. If activated to federal service, the 129 RQS is gained within the United States Air Force by the Air Combat Command (ACC).
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The Shahed 129 made its first known drone strike in February 2016, which was the first wartime drone strike by Iran. [24] [13] There is some evidence Shahed 129s may have made a drone strike with Sadid-1 missiles in November 2015. [25] A Shahed 129 was also used to provide bomb damage assessment for the 2017 Deir ez-Zor missile strike. [10]
In 1948 another DC-3, a Sikorsky S-43 and a Grumman G-21 Goose were purchased. [4] Grumman Goose of Pen-Air. Reeve sold two of these aircraft to Peninsula Airways (PenAir) in 1977. In March 1949, four days' notice was given that Shemya was to close. This base was vital to Reeve, as it was an all-weather alternative to Adak, Amchitka and Attu.