16th Air Force operates globally across nine wings and two centers presenting capabilities to generate insights on our adversaries while simultaneously ensuring and having the capabilities and the capacity to persistently engage and respond appropriately to threats today, in the future, and across the competition continuum.
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. ā€“ A joint team comprised of U.S. Air Force missileers and U.S. Navy E-6 Mercury aircrew successfully launched an unarmed Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile above the Pacific Ocean April 26, 2017.