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The squadron was redesignated the 556th Strategic Missile Squadron and activated at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida in December 1957 and was assigned directly to Strategic Air Command (SAC). [1] Air Research and Development Command (ARDC) had been test launching the Snark at Patrick since November 1952, although the first full range test of an ...
Evaluated/testing Nike-Ajax against QB-17L Drone testing. Re-designated 4802d Guided Missile Squadron 30 Dec 1950-14 May 1951 and moved to Patrick AFB. Re-designated 6555th Guided Missile Squadron, 14 May 1951 – 15 August 1959. 3d Guided Missiles Squadron: Patrick AFB Holloman AFB: Consolidated-Vultee Lark 1950–1951
The 556th Strategic Missile Squadron, formerly assigned to Dow AFB, Maine, was transferred to Plattsburgh AFB on 1 October 1961, and became completely operational on 20 December 1962. It was inactivated on 25 June 1965.
The 702nd Strategic Missile Wing was organized in January 1959 at Presque Isle Air Force Base, Maine to be the only SM-62 Snark missile wing in the USAF. [4] [note 4] In April, the wing was assigned the 556th Strategic Missile Squadron, which performed intercontinental missile test operations from Patrick Air Force Base, Florida through June 1959.
Convair SM-65F Atlas of the 556th Strategic Missile Squadron [c] In addition to the inactivation of the 308th Wing, 1961 was a year of other changes to the division's responsibilities. In January, the refueling squadrons at Plattsburgh were organized into the 4108th Air Refueling Wing, which was assigned to the division.
400th Strategic Missile Squadron; 510th Strategic Missile Squadron; 532d Strategic Missile Squadron; 533d Strategic Missile Squadron; 548th Strategic Missile Squadron; 549th Strategic Missile Squadron; 550th Strategic Missile Squadron; 551st Strategic Missile Squadron; 556th Strategic Missile Squadron; 564th Strategic Missile Squadron; 565th ...
The Wing received its first Snark training missile (e.g., an N-25 research vehicle) in late May 1952, and the 6556th Guided Missile Squadron activated a Snark cadre at AFMTC on 16 June. The squadron conducted 97 test launches at the Cape beginning on 29 August 1952 through 5 December 1960 from LC-1 , LC-2 and LC-4 for the Snark Employment and ...
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 ...