Editing LGM-30 Minuteman (section)

===Mobile Minuteman===
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[[File:Mobile Minuteman train.png|thumb|Some effort was given to a mobile version of Minuteman to improve its survivability, but this was later cancelled.]]
'''Mobile Minuteman''' was a program for rail-based ICBMs to help increase survivability and for which the USAF released details on 12 October 1959. [[Minuteman Mobility Test Train]]s were first exercised from 20 June to 27 August 1960 at [[Hill Air Force Base]], and the 4062nd Strategic Missile Wing (Mobile) was organized 1 December 1960. It was planned to include three missile train squadrons, each with 10 trains carrying 3 missiles per train. During the Kennedy/McNamara force reductions, the Department of Defense announced "that it has abandoned the plan for a mobile Minuteman ICBM. The concept called for 600 to be placed in service{{snd}}450 in silos and 150 on special trains, each train carrying 5 missiles."<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Minuteman: The West's Biggest Missile Programme |journal=Flight |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1961/1961%20-%200016.html |date=21 December 1961 |page=844 |access-date=18 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218161015/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1961/1961%20-%200016.html |archive-date=18 February 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> Kennedy announced on 18 March 1961 that the 3 squadrons were to be replaced with "fixed-base squadrons",<ref>{{Citation |format=Kennedy speech |title=99 – Special Message to the Congress on the Defense Budget. |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8554 |quote=The three mobile Minuteman squadrons funded in the January budget should be deferred for the time being and replaced by three more fixed-base squadrons (thus increasing the total number of missiles added by some two-thirds). Development work on the mobile version will continue. |access-date=22 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054719/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8554 |archive-date=21 September 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> and Strategic Air Command discontinued the 4062nd Strategic Missile Wing on 20 February 1962.

[[File:USAF MMIII C5 airdrop(Oct 1974).jpg|thumb|[[Air-launched ballistic missile|Air Mobile Feasibility Demonstration]] – 24 October 1974]]