On a recent trip, we passed by the US Air Force museum at Hill AFB, UT. I'd been there before in 2011 but stuff at museums is always changing. This was the case at Hill. In the interim 12 years, they'd added lots of equipment to their outside display.
When we first entered, I noticed an area containing a collection of obvious missile systems support vehicles. When I later hiked out to take a look, they turned out to be leftover paraphernalia from the Peacekeeper Missile program.
Peacekeeper was sometimes called the "MX Missile" during the Reagan administration. It was deployed in fixed position silos but at one time, was envisioned as also being situated on rail car systems that could move around to reduce their target profile. The rail deployment was never carried out. All Peacekeeper material was withdrawn from service 2002-2005 via political wrangling.
M915 truck, 14 ton tractor. There were two of these present, one for towing a missile container, and the other pulling what appeared to be a large generator unit. These truck tractors are marked "CCC" on the radiator (Crane Carrier Company), but AM General on the sides of the hood. This is because AM General (only successful survivor of American Motors Corp.) got the contract to build the truck and used CCC chassis.
Back of one of the missile transport containers.
USAF license plate on one of the trailers.
Front of one of the missile transport trailers.
This is an Autocar truck, do not know the mark number if any. The USAF and USN often procure oddball, one-off vehicles that are never assigned one. This was a crewcab with a van body on the back.
This is a special trailer for carrying nosecone modules.
Data tags on trailer.
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