Air Force awards contracts for next-generation ICBM airborne launch control system > Air Force Materiel Command > Article Display
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625th STOS conducts first airborne ICBM launch since 8 AF realignment > 20th Air Force > Article Display
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![CPT Lance Plummer, a launch control officer with the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, loads a coded tape into the airborne launch control system aboard an EC-135 CPT Lance Plummer, a launch control officer with the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, loads a coded tape into the airborne launch control system aboard an EC-135](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2M8F07N/cpt-lance-plummer-a-launch-control-officer-with-the-2nd-airborne-command-and-control-squadron-55th-strategic-reconnaissance-wing-loads-a-coded-tape-into-the-airborne-launch-control-system-aboard-an-ec-135-stratolifter-looking-glass-aircraft-of-the-2nd-airborne-command-and-control-squadron-55th-strategic-reconnaissance-wing-prior-to-a-mission-named-glory-trip-143gb-the-mission-will-be-the-first-remote-launch-of-a-silo-housed-minuteman-iii-missile-by-an-aircraft-based-at-offutt-the-missile-will-be-launched-from-vandenberg-air-force-base-california-base-offutt-air-force-base-state-2M8F07N.jpg)