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Boeing and Michigan Aerospace Research Center (BOMARC)
Description: BOMARC, The missle site in Westhampton was operated by the 6th Air Defense Missle Squadron of the USAF Air Defense Command (ADC). It was operational with the first version of the BOMARC missle, the BOMARC A, from 1959 through 1964. The base has 56 missle shelters. Each missle was armed with a 10-Kiloton nuclear warhead. The former missle site is currently used by Suffolk County as a police training facility, motor vehicle impound lot and archives.
For more information see www.astronautix.com/lvs/bomarc.htm
County: Suffolk County
City, State: Westhampton, New York
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For more information see www.astronautix.com/lvs/bomarc.htm
