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The Boeing CIM-10 Bomarc ("Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center") (IM-99 Weapon System [4] prior to September 1962) [5] [6] was a supersonic ramjet powered long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) used during the Cold War for the air defense of North America.
BOMARC Site RW-01 is a 75-acre (30 ha) [1] fenced-off site contaminated primarily with "weapons-grade plutonium (WGP), highly-enriched and depleted uranium." On 7 June 1960 an explosion in a CIM-10 Bomarc missile fuel tank caused the accident and subsequent contamination.
A 1965 photo of a squadron BOMARC missile elevated in its shelter. The squadron was activated at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia on 1 September 1959 as the 22d Air Defense Missile Squadron (BOMARC) [1] and stood alert during the Cold War, equipped with IM-99 (later CIM-10) BOMARC surface to air antiaircraft missiles.
CIM-10 Bomarc 1959–1972 1959–1972 Both first and last operational BOMARC squadron. Re-designated as the 46th Tactical Missile Squadron on 19 September 1985 while remaining inactive. 69th Tactical Missile Squadron: Patrick AFB Hahn AB: TM-61 Matador, 1952–1958 1952–1958 Activated as 69th Pilotless Bomber Squadron (Light).
In 1962, command of the BOMARC base transferred from Col. John A. Sarosy [11] to Col James L. Livingston. [12] The site was the first BOMARC B launch complex to close, on 31 December 1969. [13] [14] The closure was part of a realignment of "307 military bases". [15] The missile site was vacant until turned over to the Niagara Falls Municipal ...
IM-99A BOMARC missile. The Boeing IM-99 BOMARC (Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center) was a supersonic ramjet powered long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) used during the Cold War for the air defense of North America. In addition to being the first operational long-range SAM and the first operational pulse doppler aviation radar, it ...
The third predecessor of the squadron activated on 1 June 1959 at Dow Air Force Base, Maine as the 30th Air Defense Missile Squadron [13] and stood alert during the Cold War with nuclear armed IM-99A (later CIM-10) BOMARC surface to air antiaircraft missiles. The Dow BOMARC site was the fourth of fourteen BOMARC sites to be constructed. [14]
Bomarc development dragged on, and by 1956, less than 25 test launches had taken place, many of them failures. By this point, the Army had begun early production of its greatly improved Nike Hercules missile, which offered high supersonic speeds, intercept altitudes as high as 100,000 ft (30 km), and ranges on the order of 75 miles (121 km).