Editing Vandenberg Space Force Base (section)

====== LGM-25C Titan II ======
[[File:Titan2 color silo.jpg|thumb|upright|Titan II test launch from Vandenberg]]
The [[LGM-25C Titan II]] ICBM was a second-generation ICBM with storable propellants, all inertial guidance, and in-silo launch capability. Construction of the first Titan II site began in 1962, and eventually Vandenberg operated four Titan II launch complexes.<ref name="Vand Titan II Sites">{{cite web|url=http://www.techbastard.com/missile/titan2/silo/index.php|title=Titan II Missile Silo Coordinates |publisher=Techbastard.com|access-date=31 March 2013}}</ref><ref name="Chronology"/>

Most of the testing of the missile was done at [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station|Cape Kennedy Air Force Station]], Florida by the [[6555th Aerospace Test Group]], and the first successful underground silo launch of a Titan II ICBM took place at Vandenberg by the 395th SMS in April 1963. The first fully operational test took place in March 1965.<ref name="Chronology"/>

On 25 March 1966, the 200th SAC missile launched from Vandenberg AFB, California was a Titan II. The operational testing of the Titan II continued until 1985.<ref name="Chronology"/> Like its predecessor the Atlas ICBM, the [[Titan II GLV]] a derivative of that missile was used to launch [[Project Gemini]] spacecraft and the [[Titan 23G]] was used as a space booster to launch satellites. The final launch of a Titan II was made in 2003 when the last Titan IIG was expended.<ref name="vafbhistory"/>