Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (25 Viewers)

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The USAF BOMARC CIM-10 long range surface to air interceptor missile. It had a liquid fueled rocket engine in the tail that boosted it aloft to where the ramjets on either side could start working. It cruised at 2000 mph and had a much longer range than missiles such as the US Army's Nike Ajax. After it was phased out of service in the early 1970's the ramjets were removed and a more powerful rocket engine installed so it could be used as a supersonic target, with many launched from Vandenberg AFB toward the south where the USN's Pacific Missile Test Center would try to shoot them down.

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USS George Washington flight deck with an ESM Viking version in the foreground. This aircraft belongs to VQ-6 AIRH
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USAF had one fighter squadron based at Thule between 1953-1965 successively the 318th and 74th FIS, flying the same F-94B Starfires AIRH
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