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HAER No. ND-12, "Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero", 13 photos, 45 data pages, 3 photo caption pages; HAER No. ND-12-A, "Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch Control Support Building", 28 photos, 5 data pages, 4 photo caption pages
It is part of the "Grand Forks, ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area" or "Greater Grand Forks". According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 8.1 square miles (21 km 2), all land. [4] As of the census [5] of 2000, there were 4,832 people, 1,279 households, and 1,230 families residing on the base.
Sites were selected for the first two phases of Safeguard deployment, Phase I at Malmstrom AFB in Montana and Grand Forks AFB in North Dakota, and Phase II at Whiteman AFB Missouri and Warren AFB Wyoming. Only the Phase I sites required PAR, the Phase II sites would use the Phase I PARs for their early warning.
The 18th Airborne Command and Control Squadron was activated at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, on 10 February 2023 and assigned to the 319th Reconnaissance Wing at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota. [10] The squadron received its first Bombardier E-11A BACN on 24 April 2023 and will be fully operational by FY2027. [11] [12]
The B/CDB capsules were upgraded to REACT-B in the mid-1990s and used only at the 321st Missile Wing at Grand Forks AFB, ND and the 564th Missile Squadron (the "odd squad") of the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom AFB, MT until both were shut down. (19 August 1998 for the 564th, 30 September 1998 for the 321st.)
The deployment area of the complex covered the Minuteman launchers of the 321st Strategic Missile Wing, based at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota. Under the terms of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the US was permitted to deploy a single ABM system protecting an area containing ICBM launchers. The total of 100 launchers and 100 ...
The lockdown has been lifted at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota after a report of a gunshot on Wednesday afternoon sent people indoors. The base said in an earlier post that security at ...
Cavalier Space Force Station, North Dakota, is a United States Space Force installation, where the 10th Space Warning Squadron, Space Delta 4, United States Space Force monitors and tracks potential missile launches against North America with the GE AN/FPQ-16 Enhanced Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System (PARCS).