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Declassified 341st SMW unit histories

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This Black Vault release contains the Air Force's 2001 response from the 341st Space Wing FOIA office at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, to a request about the 16 March 1967 Echo Flight missile shutdown, with excerpts from 341st Strategic Missile Wing histories covering 1967 to early 1968. The histories say all ten Echo Flight launch facilities lost strategic alert almost simultaneously. Investigators could not find a logical cause and found rumors of UFOs near Echo Flight to be unfounded.

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1	MODEL OR TYPE DESIGNATION
Figure A 1377 & 1377M	WG Code
81205	INTERCONNECTING BOX
WS-132A-M	STAGE
1221T	DATE
R	CONTRACT
2	CONTRACTOR'S RECOMMENDED PRIORITY ENERGY LARDS X COMPATIBILITY
3	CONTRACTING NO.	CONTRACTING ITEM NOMINATION
Interconnecting Box	CONTRACT SPECIFICATION	AFFECTED
X NO
4	NAME OF PART OR CONSTITUTION AFFECTED
See Line 6	PART NO. OF THE AFFECTED PART
FROM	SEE PAGE 3	IN PROD.
X NO
5	TITLE OF CHANGE
HIC EM Pulse Suppressor
6	DESCRIPTION OF CHANGE
This ECP will provide for Weapon System implementation of a cost-effective HIC EXP Fix, a study of which was accomplished under CCP B972, the preliminary design of which was developed under CCP B123d, and which will be tested at an operational site under CCP B1185.
This effort will include the following specific objectives:
A. Formalize Form B's, Form C's, and Figure A Technical Requirements based on the preliminary SPA and Design Requirements for HIC EM Pulse Suppressor.

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7	DESCRIPTION OF CHANGE
A. Extensive Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) tests have shown that system anomalies occur in the HS-132A-M System as a result of noise generated from electrical discharge type pulses on the Hardened Intersite Cable (HIC).
Modification of the Weapon System is required to eliminate these anomalies.

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8	DEVELOPMENTAL PRODUCTS
See Line 6
9	ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS
None
10	PRODUCTION EFFECTIVITY
11	ESTIMATED COST FOR CHANGE IN PRODUCTION
12	RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RETROFIT
To update delivered hardware.

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13	RETRACTIVE EFFECTIVITY	X YES NO

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