Bomarc - Credit: © Mark Wade. 14,936 bytes. 227 x 472 pixels.

Bomarc Mach 3 ramjet surface to air missile later converted to target missiles and launched from Vandenberg AFB.

Development Cost $: 834.90 million. in 1959 average dollars. Total Development Built: 130. Total Production Built: 570. Flyaway Unit Cost $: 1.19 million. in 1961 unit dollars.

• Bomarc SAM first launch.

  First launching of USAF Bomarc interceptor missile from Cape Canaveral on a signal sent by the SAGE Control Center at Kingston, N.Y.

• Navy's first launch of a Bomarc A target

  AFWTR supported the Navy's first launch of a Bomarc A target missile from Vandenberg AFB.

• Last two launches of Navy's Bomarc target missile

  Last two launches of the Navy's Bomarc target missile from Vandenberg AFB (first Bomarc launch on 25 August 1966).

• 17 - Emme, Eugene M, Aeronautics and Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science and Technology in the Exploration of Space 1915-1960, NASA, 1961. HTML when accessed: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html
• 39 - Gunston, Bill,, Rockets and Missiles, Salamander, London, 1979.
• 281 - Nicholas, Ted G., U.S. Missile Data Book, 1983, Seventh Edition, Data Search Associates, Fountain Valley, California, 1982..