LGM-30 Minuteman - Related Programs

Related Programs

• Remote Visual Assessment (RVA) – provides real-time video to ICBM security forces. This video allows forces to respond to threats more quickly, and with appropriate force and situational awareness. RVA will also cut down on “wear and tear” of equipment and personnel, often caused from responding to false alarm threats.
• Rivet MILE – Minuteman Integrated Life Extension. Included IMPSS security system upgrade.
• Rivet ADD – Modification of Minuteman-II launch facilities to hold MM III missiles
• Missile Defense – Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI, “space bullet”)
• LONG LIFE – launch of Minuteman from 'live' launch facility w/7 sec of fuel
• BUSY SENTRY – Strategic Air Command exercise for intercontinental ballistic missile units.
• BUSY SURVEY II – Strategic Air Command Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) 4D missile training assistance program
• BUSY USHER – Strategic Air Command launch of No. 13 LF-02 missile MK-1 Minuteman II
• BUTTON UP – Strategic Air Command security system reset procedures used during Minuteman facility wind down
• DUST HARDNESS – A modification improvement to Minuteman III approved for service use in 1972
• GIANT PATRIOT – The code name describes an operational base launch program of test flights of Minuteman II missiles. The program was terminated by Congress in July 1974
• GIANT PLOW – An Air Force Minuteman launcher closure test program
• GIANT PROFIT – A Minuteman modified operational missile test plan
• GIGANTIC CHARGE – Program to notify NORAD of all or part of strategic integrated operational plan (SIOP) targeting for Minuteman
• GIN PLAYER – Strategic Air Command tests of Minuteman missile for identification and execution
• HAVE LEAP – A Space and Missile Test Center support of Minuteman III program
• MIDDLE GUST – An Air Force test conducted at Crowley, CO involving a simulated nuclear overblast of a Minuteman silo
• OLD FOX – Minuteman III flight tests
• OLYMPIC ARENA III – Strategic Air Command missile competition of all nine operational missile units
• OLYMPIC EVENT – A Minuteman III nuclear operational systems test
• OLYMPIC PLAY – A Strategic Air Command missiles and operational ground equipment program for EWO missions
• OLYMPIC TRIALS – A program to represent a series of launches having common objectives
• PACER GALAXY – Support of Minuteman force modification program
• PAVE PEPPER – An Air Force SAMSO (Space & Missile Systems Organization) project to decrease the size of the Minuteman III warheads and allow for more to be launched by one Minuteman.
• RIVET SAVE – A Minuteman crew sleep program modification to reduce personnel number
• SABER SAFE – Minuteman pre-launch survivability program
• SABER SECURE – A Minuteman rebasing program
• SENTINEL ALLOY – Land gravity surveys in support of the Minuteman system, cancelled
• UPGRADE SILO – A modification improvement program for Minuteman III