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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.
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 ...
The Otis Air Force Base BOMARC site was a Cold War USAF launch complex for Boeing CIM-10 Bomarc surface-to-air missiles. [1] Equipped with IM-99Bs (56 missiles: 28 solid-state, 28 liquid-state), the site had 28 Model IV "coffin" shelters, on 60 acres (24 ha).
The Martin B-57 Canberra is an American-built, twin-engined tactical bomber and reconnaissance aircraft that entered service with the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1953. . The B-57 is a license-built version of the British English Electric Canberra, manufactured by the Glenn L. Martin Compa
Marshland on the southern edge. The Dare County Bombing Range is a US Air Force managed and operated facility and is located in Dare County, North Carolina.The range serves as an air to surface bombing range for the US Air Force and US Navy who is a tenant command on the northern portion of the range [1] The range is also used for some select special operations and Joint Terminal Attack ...
The suspect placed another bomb at the Republican headquarters. Both sites are near the Capitol. New surveillance video shows a suspect who placed pipe bombs in Washington the night before the Jan ...
The Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) was a radar system built by the United States (with the cooperation of Canada and Denmark on whose territory some of the radars were sited) during the Cold War to give early warning of a Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) nuclear strike, to allow time for US bombers to get off the ground and land-based US ICBMs to be launched, to ...