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Airmen on Navy Command Jet Test-Launch Three-Tipped, Unarmed Nuclear Missile

Aug. 4, 2020 | By Brian W. Everstine
A Navy E-6B Mercury nuclear command plane launched a three-tipped, unarmed Air Force nuclear missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in an unusual but long-planned exercise Aug. 4. Sailors and Airmen from Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., aboard the E-6B worked with Airmen from ...

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