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bomber aircraft armed with thermonuclear weapons remained on continuous airborne alert, flying routes that put them in positions to attack targets in the Soviet...14 KB (1,720 words) - 02:00, 14 August 2024
airborne 24 hours a day for over 29 years, until July 24, 1990, when "The Glass" ceased continuous airborne alert, but remained on ground or airborne...14 KB (1,506 words) - 19:54, 24 May 2024
Strategic Air Command (section Nuclear missiles, aircrew readiness, airborne alert, and strategic reconnaissance)24-hour alert status, either on the ground or airborne. By 1960, fully one third of SAC's bombers and aerial refueling aircraft were on 24-hour alert, with...114 KB (13,208 words) - 20:32, 13 July 2024- Boeing EC-135 (redirect from Boeing EC-135H Airborne Command Post)the event of nuclear war. Various other EC-135 aircraft sat on airborne and ground alert throughout the Cold War, with the last EC-135C being retired in...33 KB (4,017 words) - 21:29, 22 July 2024
the battle staff of the USSTRATCOM "Looking Glass" Airborne Command Post (ABNCP) and is on alert around-the-clock. The ALCS mission has been held by...5 KB (604 words) - 05:14, 23 February 2023
Air Force Base in Goldsboro, and part of the Strategic Air Command's airborne alert mission known as "Cover All" (a predecessor to Operation Chrome Dome)...50 KB (6,425 words) - 15:57, 23 July 2024
DEFCON (category Alert measurement systems)refueling tankers) were ready to launch within one hour, while its airborne alert program expanded to include 1/8th of SAC's bomber forces, allowing an...15 KB (1,436 words) - 02:35, 14 August 2024
demonstrate that a continuous airborne alert could be maintained successfully. Before each flight, a briefing was held, alerting the crewmembers to basic world...82 KB (9,812 words) - 08:42, 10 August 2024
The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division of the United States Army specializing in parachute assault operations into hostile areas with...154 KB (16,358 words) - 21:49, 14 August 2024
Boeing E-4 (redirect from Advanced Airborne Command Post)The Boeing E-4 Advanced Airborne Command Post (AACP), the current "Nightwatch" aircraft, is a strategic command and control military aircraft operated...36 KB (4,115 words) - 22:58, 27 July 2024- July 24, 1990, Looking Glass ceased continuous airborne alert but remained on ground or airborne alert 24 hours a day. On October 1, 1998, the U.S. Navy...24 KB (2,824 words) - 23:29, 29 July 2024
Throughout the Cold War, B-52s and other US strategic bombers performed airborne alert patrols under code names such as Head Start, Chrome Dome, Hard Head...166 KB (19,202 words) - 19:17, 5 August 2024
to respond to alerts for action anywhere in the world. After alert notification, troopers of the "hot" platoon/company, would be airborne, "wheels-up"...148 KB (15,334 words) - 20:44, 14 August 2024
Cuban Missile Crisis (section US alert level raised)of SAC's 1,436 bombers were on airborne alert, and some 145 intercontinental ballistic missiles stood on ready alert, some of which targeted Cuba. Air...216 KB (24,693 words) - 01:11, 30 July 2024
Post-Attack Command and Control System (redirect from Airborne Command Post)team on 15-minute ground alert. This was later changed to a continuous airborne alert posture. The functions of this PACCS Airborne Command Post kept expanding...7 KB (732 words) - 17:37, 1 February 2024
Carolina, carrying four B28FI Mod 2 Y1 thermonuclear bombs on a Cold War airborne alert mission named Operation Chrome Dome. The flight plan took the aircraft...47 KB (5,087 words) - 19:38, 14 August 2024- The airborne wind shear detection and alert system, fitted in an aircraft, detects and alerts the pilot both visually and aurally of a wind shear condition...5 KB (586 words) - 05:21, 27 September 2023
- demonstrate that a continuous airborne alert could be maintained successfully. Before each flight, a briefing would be held, alerting the crewmembers to basic...5 KB (620 words) - 07:09, 16 April 2022
prototype of a design to perform a military mission as a continuous airborne alert warning system and missile launching platform." Photographs illustrated...19 KB (2,005 words) - 17:56, 16 July 2024
variants conducted training and test operations and stood ground and airborne alert, but were never flown offensively as bombers against hostile forces...81 KB (10,353 words) - 12:32, 13 August 2024
- cruise missile) to keep bombers at a distance from their targets. "Airborne alert" helped offset the threat of a surprise first strike against the United
- high-level and low-level reconnaissance flights over Cuba; a large-scale airborne alert with significant risk of accidents involving nuclear weapons; continuing
- codenamed 'Operation Overlord', began on June 6, 1944, with the landing of airborne and amphibious troops in Normandy. The initial landing phase of this operation