The Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS ... “If communications with one of the launch control centers is lost, then the launch facility goes into a mode where it uses its radios to listen for ...

The E-6B is equipped with an airborne launch control system which ... giving the Pentagon another option if launch control centers on the ground are destroyed. The ALCS is operated by Air Force ...

The U.S. Navy Boeing E-6B Mercury is a dual-mission aircraft providing either airborne command, control and communications or serving as an airborne strategic command post equipped with an airborne ...

“This test launch reinforces what our allies and ... and the first time a test involved the use of the airborne control center since Aug. 16. The Air Force regularly conducts unarmed ICBM ...

This U.S. Navy E-6B aircraft, pictured receiving fuel from an Air Force KC-135R, is one of 16 that replaced the EC-135 Looking Glass fleet as the airborne launch control system for the Minuteman III.

The U.S. Air Force has selected Lockheed Martin to update the launch control system on the Boeing ... Force 29 years ago – that serves as the Airborne Command Post for nuclear missile launches.

Power Plant: three solid-propellant rocket motors; First Stage ATK refurbished M55A1; Second Stage ATK refurbished SR-19; Third Stage ATK refurbished SR-73 Thrust: First Stage: 203,158 pounds ...

Typically, the final actions, or key turns, for missile tests occurs from underground launch control center at Vandenberg. However, the military also has its airborne platform as a backup to ...

The airborne control system serves as an alternate ... The U.S. 8th Air Force and the Joint-Global Strike Operations Center: "Simulated Electronic Launch Minuteman] tests do not happen overnight ...

It supports critical missions such as Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) and Looking Glass, which connect U.S. leadership with nuclear forces and facilitate airborne launch control of ...

This in turn will offer a solution to meet the survivable launch platform — airborne fire control requirements for ... During loss of command capability between the launch control center and remote ...