Air Force Missile Development Center

Air Force Missile Development Center
Air Force Missile Development Center
	Air Force Missile Development Center sign in 1958
Active	1 September 1957-1 August 1970
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force, assigned to: Air Force Systems Command, 1 April 1961; Air Research and Development Command, 1 December 1957; with predecessors assigned to: Air Proving Ground Command, 29 December 1951; Air Proving Ground, 1 June 1948; Air Materiel Command, 20 January 1948; Air Proving Ground Command, 16 March 1947;
Role	Research & Development

The Air Force Missile Development Center and its predecessors were Cold War units that conducted and supported numerous missile tests using facilities at Holloman Air Force Base, where the center was the host unit ("Holloman" and "Development Center" were sometimes colloquially used to identify military installations in the Tularosa Basin).

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