The AGM-86B ALCM (Air-Launched Cruise Missile) is a USAF long-range air-launched strategic missile currently deployed on board B-52G/H bombers. The Boeing Co. is the prime manufacturer of the missile, and the USAF has procured a total of 1,787 AGM-86B ALCMs (72 of which were test units). Last procurement of the missile took place in FY84, RDT&E funding ended in FY91 and Class IV procurement funding ended in FY93. A previously secret conventional version, the AGM-86C Block 0 CALCM (Conventional ALCM), was employed with success during Opera-tion Desert Storm in January 1991. After Desert Storm, the CALCM con-figuration was upgraded with GPS and other avionics improvements, re-sulting in the Block I version.
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