Missile transport is no easy task

    Oct. 19, 2017
    Moving missiles for the U.S. military

    Moving nuclear-tipped long-range missiles is not a simple task, but specialized U.S. Air Force "missile maintenance squadrons" make it look easy. Surrounding their customized "payload transporters" with armored and armed trucks, along with helicopter gunships providing air cover overhead, the squadrons can rapidly relocate nuclear missiles via ground transport anywhere in the contiguous lower-48 states.

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    Sean Kilcarr is a former longtime FleetOwner senior editor who wrote for the publication from 2000 to 2018. He served as editor-in-chief from 2017 to 2018.

     

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