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SM-65D Atlas missile 58-220, F. E. Warren AFB. The SM-65D Atlas, or Atlas D, was the first operational version of the Atlas missile and the basis for all Atlas space launchers, debuting in 1959. [26] Atlas D weighed 255,950 lb (116,100 kg) (without payload) and had an empty weight of only 11,894 lb (5,395 kg); the other 95.35% was propellant.
Also provided training to SAC personnel on SM-65 Atlas and HGM-25A Titan I Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Later became a B-52H Stratofortress bombardment squadron. 672d Strategic Missile Squadron: RAF Feltwell RAF Lakenheath: PGM-17 Thor, 1958–1959 1958–1959 Short-lived Missile Training squadron in the UK for RAF Thor missile crews.
Missile 14D launched from LC-13 on August 11, at which point the Air Force somewhat reluctantly declared the Atlas to be operational as a missile system. On September 9, Missile 12D launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, marking the first Atlas flight from the West Coast.
It was the nation's first operational Intercontinental Ballistic Missile base with the 1958 introduction of the SM-65D Atlas missile. Today, the 90th MW operates 150 LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBMs on full, constant alert. The 90 MW is organized into four groups:
This is a list of missile wings activated by the United States Air Force during and after the Cold War.Although most of these wings included the word "missile" in their designations, the majority of units operating Convair SM-65 Atlas and Martin SM-68A Titan I intercontinental ballistic missiles were strategic wings or strategic aerospace wings, which combined missile, bomber and air refueling ...
The Atlas-Centaur was an expendable launch system derived from the SM-65D Atlas missile. [citation needed] Launches were conducted from two pads of the Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The Atlas' engines were upgraded and the structure reinforced for the large upper stage, along with elongated propellant tanks.
SM-65F Atlas, Operational Suitability Test Facility for Atlas F missiles. Seven Atlas research and development launches occurred August 1962 – January 1965 and the site was then inactivated. [7] [12] BOM1, BOM2 Used for CIM-10 Bomarc interceptors. Two Bomarc launchers with a third support building between the two shelters.
Used as BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile base, 1984–1989. Soesterberg Air Base, Netherlands (Closed 1994) Woensdrecht Air Base, Netherlands; Planned BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile base (Closed 1988, never made active)