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Air Force Bases and Naval Air Stations Wurtsmith Air Force Base was used to train Free French pilots in WWII and to house nuclear-armed B-52 bombers during the Cold War. See also Michigan World War II Army Airfields. Michigan's northern location made it a good site for several Cold War air bases, especially Strategic Air Command B-52 / KC-135 ...
Garrison. 449th Bombardment Wing. Kincheloe Air Force Base was a United States Air Force (USAF) base during the Cold War. Built in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 1943 during World War II, the base was in service until 1977. [1] [2] [3] The base was known by various names, including Kinross Municipal Airport, Kinross Army Air Field, Kinross ...
4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes. 154 × BGM-109 Tomahawks in 22 groups of seven. USS Michigan (SSBN-727/SSGN-727) is an Ohio -class nuclear-powered guided missile submarine (SSGN), converted from a ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), that is part of the United States Navy. She is the third vessel to bear the name of the U.S. state of Michigan .
A B-52H bomber taking off from Minot Air Force Base in August 2007. Date. 29–30 August 2007. Location. Minot AFB, North Dakota, and Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. Result. Six nuclear warheads mishandled and unaccounted for, or improperly secured, for approximately 36 hours. On 29 August 2007, six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80 ...
St. Joseph, colloquially known as St. Joe, is a city and the county seat of Berrien County, Michigan. It was incorporated as a village in 1834 and as a city in 1891. [4] As of the 2020 census, the city population was 7,856. [5] It lies on the shore of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the St. Joseph River, about 90 miles (140 km) east-northeast of ...
After the phase-out of the Nike Ajax system, sites B-05, B-36, and B-73 remained supplied with Hercules missiles. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) B-21DC established at Fort Heath, MA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center.
Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a 650-acre (260 ha) site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary.
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. In addition to being the first operational long-range SAM and the first ...