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Type Country Class Role Date Status No. Notes ASSET: USA: Rocket launch: Experimental: 1963: Prototype: Uncrewed reentry test vehicle. Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar: USA
Typical Vehicle Designation Stencil for a USAF aircraft. This one is on the port side of a T-33A under the canopy frame. Joint Regulation 4120.15E: Designating and Naming Military Aerospace Vehicles is the current system for designating all aircraft, helicopters, rockets, missiles, spacecraft, and other aerial vehicles in military use by the United States Armed Forces.
Army aircraft from the 1956 system were similarly redesignated. [citation needed] The 1962 Tri-Service aircraft designation system is still in use today, though, since 1974, it has been presented and maintained alongside the 1963 Tri-Service rocket and guided missile designation system. DoD Directive 4120.15, first issued in 1971 and most ...
The United States Space Force (USSF) is the space force branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six armed forces of the United States and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. [7] It is also one of two independent space forces in the world. [8]
The Space Force has no command echelon equivalent of the U.S. Air Force′s numbered air forces, [25] so the next command echelon below field commands is the delta, a single level of command which combines the wing and group command echelons found in the U.S. Air Force. [25]
The United States department of Defense was established in 1949, the old name Department of War was retired in 1947. In 1962 separate aircraft naming schemes were unified, but out of convenience many numbers carried over. For example, the P-38 Lightning, which also was used as the F-4 and F-5 for reconnaissance and FO in the Navy, became the F-38.
Defensive space control and space situational awareness: 380th Space Control Squadron [8] Peterson AFB "Blue Squadron" RAIDRS [9] Reserve Unit Space Test and Development Squadrons: Squadron Shield Location Nickname System Note 1st Air and Space Test Squadron: Vandenberg AFB: 14th Test Squadron: Peterson AFB: 17th Test Squadron: Peterson AFB ...
In addition to aircraft intended to support military operations, the armed forces of the United States have also supported efforts to push the boundaries of aeronautical and aerospace knowledge. Some of the best-known of these projects are the aircraft designated in the "X" series of designations, which led them to become known as "X-planes".