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Broken Arrow incidents. The US Department of Defense has officially recognized at least 32 "Broken Arrow" incidents from 1950 to 1980. [6] Examples of these events include: 1950 British Columbia B-36 crash. 1956 B-47 disappearance. 1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident. 1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision.
A minimum interval takeoff (MITO) is a technique of the United States Air Force for scrambling all available bomber and tanker aircraft at twelve- and fifteen-second intervals, respectively. [1] Before takeoff, the aircraft perform an elephant walk to the runway. It is designed to maximize the number of aircraft launched in the least amount of ...
The Tybee Island mid-air collision was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States. During a night practice exercise, an F-86 fighter plane collided with the B-47 bomber carrying the large weapon.
Box office. $115.4 million. We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film written and directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson. Based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… and Young (1992) by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, it dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965.
The Damascus Titan missile explosion (also called the Damascus accident[1]) was a 1980 U.S. nuclear weapons incident involving a Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). The incident occurred on September 18–19, 1980, at Missile Complex 374-7 in rural Arkansas when a U.S. Air Force LGM-25C Titan II ICBM loaded with a 9-megaton W-53 ...
Broken Arrow (nuclear), an accidental nuclear event involving nuclear weapons, warheads, or components which does not create the risk of nuclear war. "Broken Arrow", a code phrase notably used during the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang to indicate an American combat unit was in danger of being overrun. Broken Arrow Skyrace, a trail running event in ...
Broken Arrow – The Declassified History of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Accidents. Lulu. ISBN 978-1-4357-0361-2 "Broken Arrow – Palomares, Spain" (PDF). USAF Nuclear Safety. 52. Directorate of Nuclear Safety, United States Air Force. September–October 1966. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2011
Sidi Slimane Air Base was the location of a Broken Arrow nuclear incident on 31 January 1958. A USAF B-47 carrying an armed nuclear weapon experienced a wheel casting failure during simulated takeoff. The bomber's tail hit the runway, rupturing a fuel tank and igniting a fire.