Editing CIM-10 Bomarc (section)

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<ref name=Astronautix>{{cite web |title=Bomarc |url=http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/bomarc.htm |publisher=[[Encyclopedia Astronautica]] |access-date=7 August 2013 |quote=Promising <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Ground-to-Air Pilotless Aircraft|GAPA]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> results led to Boeing receiving a USAF contract in 1949 to develop the exotic MX-1599 ramjet-powered, nuclear-armed long-range surface-to-air missile for defense of the continental United States from high-altitude bombers. The last Bomarc A was phased out in December 1964. In April 1972 the last Bomarc B was retired. Test flights of XF-99 test vehicles began in September 1952 and continued through early 1955. The XF-99 tested only the liquid-fueled booster rocket, which would accelerate the missile to ramjet ignition speed. In February 1955, tests of the XF-99A propulsion test vehicles began. These included live ramjets, but still had no guidance system or warhead. The designation YF-99A had been reserved for the operational test vehicles. In August 1955, the USAF discontinued the use of aircraft-like type designators for missiles, and the XF-99A and YF-99A became XIM-99A and YIM-99A. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817173907/http://astronautix.com/lvs/bomarc.htm |archive-date=17 August 2013  }}</ref>

<ref name=AFD100617>{{Cite report |date=17 December 1958 |title=IM-99 Weapon System: 26 October – 28 November 1958 |url=http://www.secretsdeclassified.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100617-111.pdf |access-date=4 August 2013 |quote=technical training facility at Eglin Air Force Auxiliary Field Number 9. The IM-99A and IM-99B [[Mark 40 nuclear warhead|warheads (W-40)]] The IM-99B had been designed to include a "Pattern Patrol" type operation. Missiles could be launched in multiples, or at very close intervals and guided in a line abreast type formation with target seekers operating in search mode. This would provide a capability to patrol a given area where targets were suspected but where definite tracks had not been established. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218153547/http://www.secretsdeclassified.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100617-111.pdf |archive-date=18 February 2013  }}</ref>

<ref name=FlightGlobal>{{Citation |date=24 May 1957 |title=BOMARC: Boeing's Long-range A.A. Missile |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1957/1957%20-%200681.PDF |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1957/1957%20-%200681.PDF |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |publisher=FlightGlobal |page=687 |access-date=4 August 2013|quote=Development of the electronic guidance was assisted by simulated IM-99 nose sections, pressurized by nitrogen and cooled by ammonia, fitted to a T-33 and a B-57, the pilot of these aircraft cutting out the guidance and breaking away from the collision course as the target was neared. … 70 per cent subcontracted: prime contractor, Boeing (assembly of missiles at the main Seattle plant, Pilotless Aircraft Division); cruise propulsion, Marquardt; boost propulsion, Aerojet-General; guidance and control, Westinghouse Air Arm Division; ground control gear, Westinghouse Electronics Division; ground-support and test gear, Farnsworth Division of I.T. and T.; airborne electronic intelligence, Lear (LearCal and Grand Rapids Divisions); nose of missile, Pastushin (glass fibre, leaves radar beams undistorted).}}</ref>

<ref name=IBM>{{Cite report |publisher=International Business Machines Corporation |year=1959 |title=The SAGE/Bomarc Air Defense Weapons System: An Illustrated Explanation of What it is and How it Works |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BFdIGwAACAAJ |format=fact sheet |location=New York |access-date=23 April 2013|quote=BOMARC Crew training was activated January 1, 1958. The operator requests an "engagement prediction point" from the IBM computer. Missile guidance information is relayed via leased lines to Cape Canaveral, and via radio to the BOMARC missile. AN/FPS-20 long-range search radar at Patrick Air Force Base}} [http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/sage/SAGE_BOMARC_Defense_System_1958.pdf Alt URL] (cited by ''History of Strategic Air and Ballistic Missile Defense'': Volume I, p. 257.)</ref>

<ref name=McMullen1980_312>{{Cite report |last=McMullen |first=R. F. |date=15 February 1980 |title=History of Air Defense Weapons 1946–1962 |volume=ADC Historical Study No. 14 |publisher=Historical Division, Office of information, HQ ADC |page=312 |quote=Development of a long-range interceptor missile to be known as BOMARC was approved by the Research and Development Board of the Department of Defense in December 1950. BOMARC flight testing got off to a shaky start on 10 September 1952 when the first missile was launched from the [[Eastern Range|Florida test center]] that later became known as Cape Canaveral. …the BOMARC Weapons System Project Officer (WSPO), an ARDC official, gave permission for the launching of 12 YIM-99A (the "Y" designated experimental missiles). The first attempt at SAGE control of BOMARC occurred 7 August 1958… Because of split radar returns, SAGE was not able to give the missile the proper commands and [then a] GPA-35 took control. The missile malfunctioned, however, and [crashed] into the Atlantic. Air Force Missile Employment Facility at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Hurlburt (officially designated Eglin Auxiliary Field No. 9) [with launchers] was on a narrow strip of sand known as Santa Rosa Island. In August 1960, the BOMARC Weapons System Project Office (AMC) had assured the BOMARC General Officers Board that $100,000 would be available to pay for Boeing help. "Bomarc Alternate Boost Program at React ion Motors, Inc.," 3 July 1953 … Msg, WWXDBE-FA 18-5-47, IM-99 Field Test Sec to USAF, 19 May 1960 [Doc 304 to Hist of ADC, Jan–Jun 1960].}}</ref>

<ref name=NORAD1959B>{{Cite NORAD Historical Summary |version=1959b |access-date=30 April 2013}} "On 7 October 1959, NORAD provided guidance [[Super Combat Center#Auster SAGE Program|on this]] to ADC as follows. Gap fillers will be redeployed to provide low altitude coverage (500 feet) 230 nautical Jl1il~s forward and 150 miles to the rear of all BOMARC launch sites … Criteria for BOMARC coverage is that no lateral gaps exceed 25 nautical miles (normal terrain) at a curve of constant altitude of 300 feet… Directional antennas and high power amplifiers tor the [[Ground Air Transmit Receive|ground-to-air transmitter sites]] will be programmed and deployed only as required to support BOMARC operations. NORAO Objective Plan 1961–1965 … called for an F-101 squadron for Comox AB, Canada, and a BOMARC squadron for Paine AFB, Washington. To control these squadrons, NORAD also provided for an AN/FPS-28 for the Queen Charlotte Islands. … total off-shore coverage, available from ALRI and land-based sources, would permit use of the BOMARC B only to approximately 70 per cent of its low-altitude and 50 per cent of its high-altitude range capability. In the last six months of 1959. two IM-99A squadrons became operational and assumed an air defense role. The first was the 46th Air Defense Missile Squadron (BOMARC) based at McGuire AFB, New Jersey…activated on 1 January 1959, operational on 1 September 1959 with three missiles. …the 6th Air Defense Missile Squadron (BOMARC) at Suffolk 6th ADMS activated on 1 February 1959, operational on 1 December 1959. As of 1 January 1960. the McGuire squadron had 24 IM-39A missiles and the Suffolk squadron had four missiles available for air defense. The 26th ADMS, activated at Otis AFB, Massachusetts, on 1 March 1359; the 30th ADMS, activated on 1 June 1959 at Dow AFB. Maine; and the 22nd ADMS, activated on 1 September 1959 at Langley AFB, Virginia. These units were expected to become operational in 1960. NADOP 1959–1963, dated 16 December 1958 [planned for] FY 1963 of 36 IM-99B sites and 2,772 launchers. [32] in the U. S. (excluding Alaska), two in the [Alaska] 64th Air Div1sion area, and two in Canada. In March 1960, the JCS told NORAD that they were considering reducing the BOMARC program to eight U.S. and two Canadian squadrons."</ref>

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