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The Bomarc Missile Program was a joint United States of America-Canada effort between 1957 and 1971 to protect against the USSR bomber threat. It involved the deployment of tactical stations armed with Bomarc missiles along the east and west coasts of North America and the central areas of the continent. BOMARC and SAGE were phased out in the late sixties as they were ineffective and costly. Download high resolution version (1113x1437, 799 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...
World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...
SAGE Sector Control Room. ...
The Bomarcs were capable of carrying conventional or nuclear warheads. Their intended role in defence was in an intrusion prevention perimeter. Bomarcs aligned on the eastern and western coasts of North America would theoretically launch and disintegrate enemy bombers before the bombers could drop their payloads on industrial regions. The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter. ...
The name Bomarc was created by merging the names of two organisations: Boeing and the Michigan Aeronautical Research Center (MARC). It was originally designated F-99, imagined as being equivalent to a fighter, but was quickly redesignated "IM" for Interceptor Missile, retaining the -99 series number. The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA, TYO: 7661 ) is an aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. ...
The Michigan Aeronautical Research Center (MARC) is one of Americas leading air research organisations. ...
The "Bomarc IM-99A" was the first production Bomarc missile. It had an operational radius of 200 miles, and was designed to fly at Mach 2.5-2.8 at a cruising altitude of 60,000 feet. It was 14.2 m (46.6 ft) long and weighed 7,020 kg (15,500 lb). A rocket engine boosted the Bomarc to Mach 2, and then its ramjet engines would take over for the remainder of the flight. Mach number (Ma) (pronounced: mæk, mÉ‘Ëk) is defined as a ratio of the speed of an object or flow relative to the speed of sound in the medium through which it is travelling: Vo/Vs where Vo is the speed of the object and Vs is the speed...
A Redstone rocket, part of the Mercury program The traditional definition of a rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving fluid from within a rocket engine. ...
A ramjet, sometimes referred to as a stovepipe jet, is a type of jet engine. ...
The "Super Bomarc IM-99B" was the 99A's successor, with improvements to its operational parameters. It was capable of striking targets within a radius of 400 miles, and able to fly at Mach 4 as high as 100,000 feet. It was 13.7 m (45 ft) long and weighed 7,250 kg (16,000 lb).
SAGE allowed for remote launching of the Bomarc missiles.
At the height of the program, there were 14 Bomarc sites located in the United States, and two in Canada.
The Bomarc Missile Program was highly controversial in Canada. The Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker initially agreed to deploy the missiles, and shortly after controversially scrapped the Avro Arrow interceptor program arguing that the missile program made the Arrow unnecessary. The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC) (In French: Parti progressiste-conservateur du Canada) was a Canadian centre-right conservative political party that existed from 1867 to 2003. ...
Stephen Harper is the current Prime Minister of Canada. ...
John George Diefenbaker (September 18, 1895 - August 16, 1979) was the thirteenth Prime Minister of Canada. ...
Avro Arrow The A.V.Roe CF-105 Arrow was a delta-wing interceptor aircraft, designed and built in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Avro Canada during a short period of time in the 1950s. ...
Initially, it was unclear whether the missiles would be equipped with nuclear warheads. Once their use as nuclear weapons became known in 1960, a debate ensued about whether Canada should accept nuclear weapons. Ultimately, the Diefenbaker government decided that the Bomarcs should be equipped with conventional warheads. The dispute split the Diefenbaker Cabinet, and led to the collapse of the government in 1963. The Opposition Liberal Party argued in favour of accepting nuclear warheads, and, after winning the 1963 election, the new Liberal government of Lester Pearson proceeded to accept nuclear warheads, with the first being deployed on December 31, 1963. 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...
The Cabinet of Canada plays an important role in the Canadian government in accordance with the Westminster System. ...
1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...
The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada), colloquially known as the Grits (originally Clear Grits), is a Canadian federal political party positioned around the centre to centre-left of the political spectrum, combining a generally progressive social policy with moderate economics. ...
The Canadian federal election of 1963 resulted in the defeat of the minority Progressive Conservative government of John George Diefenbaker. ...
The Right Honourable Lester Bowles Mike Pearson (April 23, 1897 - December 27, 1972) was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963, to April 20, 1968, and also a 1957 Nobel Laureate. ...
December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...
Pierre Trudeau, still working as a journalist, attacked Pearson for the decision. While he was forced to reverse himself when he decided to run as a candidate for the Liberals in the 1965 election, he remained unenthusiastic. Shortly after becoming prime minister in 1968, he announced that the missiles would be phased out by 1971. Trudeau redirects here. ...
In the Canadian federal election of 1965, the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson was re-elected with a larger number of seats in the Canadian House of Commons. ...
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...
Although a number of IM-99/CIM-10 Bomarcs have been placed on public display, concerns about the possible environmental hazards of the thoriated magnesium structure of the airframe have resulted in several being removed from public view. Radiation contamination from a fire at McGuire AFB, N.J., that destroyed an active Bomarc-A airframe on the launch pad on June 7, 1960, resulted in that area remaining off-limits to the present day. The nuclear warhead was not activated in this Broken Arrow accident, however. McGuire AFB is a town located in Burlington County, New Jersey. ...
1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...
Broken Arrow or broken arrow can refer to several things. ...
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Russ Sneddon, director of the USAF Armament Museum, Eglin AFB, Florida. (Provided information about missing CIM-10 exhibit airframe serial 59-2016, one of the museum's original artifacts from its founding in 1975 and donated by the 4751st Air Defense Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Eglin Aux. Fld. 9. As of mid-April 2005, the suspect missile was still stored in a secure compound behind the Armaments Museum.) Eglin Air Force Base is a base of the United States Air Force that belongs to the Air Force Materiel Command; the Air Armament Center is the host unit. ...
1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
Hurlburt Field is a base of the United States Air Force located in Okaloosa County, Florida on the Eglin Air Force Base reservation immediately west of the Town of Mary Esther. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Operators The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was the air force of Canada from 1924 until 1968 when the three branches of the Canadian military were merged into the Canadian Armed Forces. ...
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerospace branch of the United States armed forces and one of the seven uniformed services. ...
External links - History of the Royal Canadian Air Force 'Pinetree Line' air defense stations
- http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/bomarc.htm
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