page_title: CIM-10 Bomarc
section_title: Surviving missiles
hierarchical_section_title: CIM-10 Bomarc / Surviving missiles
caption_attribution_description: Photograph showing Bomarc B missile on display at the Canada Aviation Museum Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
context_page_description: The Boeing CIM-10 Bomarc was a supersonic ramjet powered long-range surface-to-air missile used during the Cold War for the air defense of North America. In addition to being the first operational long-range SAM and the first operational pulse doppler aviation radar, it was the only SAM deployed by the United States Air Force.
  Stored horizontally in a launcher shelter with movable roof, the missile was erected, fired vertically using rocket boosters to high altitude, and then tipped over into a horizontal Mach 2.5 cruise powered by ramjet engines. This lofted trajectory allowed the missile to operate at a maximum range as great as 430 mi. Controlled from the ground for most of its flight, when it reached the target area it was commanded to begin a dive, activating an onboard active radar homing seeker for terminal guidance. A radar proximity fuse detonated the warhead, either a large conventional explosive or the W40 nuclear warhead.
  The Air Force originally planned for a total of 52 sites covering most of the major cities and industrial regions in the US.
context_section_description: Below is a list of museums or sites which have a Bomarc missile on display:
  Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
  Air Force Space & Missile Museum, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.  This pristine artifact is now on display (along with many other restored rockets and missiles) in historic Hangar C and may be viewed by taking a "special interest" tour offered through the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (beginning January 2020).
  Alberta Aviation Museum, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill Air Force Base, Utah
  Historical Electronics Museum, Linthicum, Maryland (display of AN/DPN-53, the first airborne pulse-doppler radar, used in the Bomarc)
  Illinois Soldiers & Sailors Home, Quincy, Illinois
  Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Mississippi
  Museum of Aviation, Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Georgia
  National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
  Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum (former Chanute Air Force Base), Rantoul, Illinois; unfortunately, the museum closed on December 30, 2015
  Peterson Air and Space Museum, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
  Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, Nebraska
  U.S. Air Force History and Traditions Museum, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas
  Vandenberg Air Force Base (Space and Missile Heritage Center), California. Bomarc not for public access.
caption: Bomarc B on display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, c. 2006.
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