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This is a list of the LGM-30 Minuteman missile Missile Alert Facilities and Launch Facilities of the 341st Missile Wing, 20th Air Force, located at Malmstrom AFB, Montana. The wing was the first United States Air Force LGM-30 Minuteman ICBM wing.
As with all sites in the 44th Strategic Missile Wing, both had seen limited modification since they were built in the 1960s. The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act (S. 459; 113th Congress) added about 29 acres (12 ha) of land to the park in 2013, tripling its size to include a visitor facility.
Because Malmstrom's location placed most strategic targets in the Soviet Union within range of Minuteman, the base was selected to become a command and control center for ICBMs located in central Montana. On 23 December 1959, the Air Force Ballistic Missile Committee approved the selection of Malmstrom AFB to host the first Minuteman ICBM base.
In November 1962, the 455th Strategic Missile Wing was the fourth United States Air Force LGM-30 Minuteman ICBM wing, the third with the LGM-30B Minuteman I. In 1962 and 1963 150 missiles were deployed to silos controlled by three squadrons of 455th in North Dakota.
The 321st Missile Group transferred control of its Minuteman III silos and alert responsibilities to the 341st Missile Wing on 30 September 1998. As a result of the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review, the 341st Missile Wing deactivated the Minuteman III WS-133B missile system and subsequent inactivation of the 564th Missile Squadron on 19 August 2008
The Sentinel Missile Project to replace the nation's ICBM network will bring close to 3,000 temporary workers to central Montana beginning around 2030
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Pages in category "Military installations in Montana" ... 341st Missile Wing LGM-30 Minuteman missile launch sites; M.
The Air Force has detected unsafe levels of a likely carcinogen at underground launch control centers at a Montana nuclear missile base where a striking number of men and women have reported ...