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460th Test and Evaluation Squadron
460th Fighter-Interceptor SquadronF-106 Delta Darts
Active	1942–1982; 2023-present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Type	Test
Nickname	The Black Rams[1]
Motto	Cave TigrimLatin Beware of the Tiger[2]
Decorations	Distinguished Unit Citation Air Force Outstanding Unit Award Philippine Presidential Unit Citation[2]
Commanders
Current commander	Lt Col Derek "Shadow" Anderson
Insignia
Patch with 460th Fighter-Interceptor Training Squadron emblem
Patch with 460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron emblem(approved 17 January 1955)[2]

The460th Test and Evaluation Squadron is an activeUnited States Air Force unit. It was previously assigned toTactical Air Command's325th Fighter Weapons Wing atTyndall Air Force Base, Florida, where it was inactivated on 15 October 1982. On 11 August 2023, it was reactivated and assigned to the 926th Operations Group,926th Wing at Nellias AFB, Nevada.

Established in late 1942 as a ground support squadron. Deployed to thePacific Theater of Operations in 1943 to Australia where the unit functioned as a ground support unit atSydney Airport, then at Dobodura in New Guinea. Converted to aP-47 Thunderbolt operational combat unit, engaged in fighter-bomber operations against Japanese positions inNew Guinea, Netherlands East Indies and also during the Philippines Campaign (1944–1945). Moved toOkinawa, then Japan after the Japanese Capitulation as part of the Occupation Force, inactivated in 1946.

Reactivated in 1954 as part of theU.S. Air ForceAir Defense Command, stationed atKnoxville, forair defense of theOak Ridge National Laboratory andTVA dams ineasternTennessee. Moved toPortland AFB, Oregon, and flew air defense missions over thePacific Northwest, later tosouthernCalifornia in 1968 atOxnard AFB, which closed a year later; it then moved toGrand Forks AFB,North Dakota, until inactivated as part of the drawdown of ADC in 1974.

Reactivated briefly in early 1982 as an air defense training squadron atTyndall AFB, Florida; inactivated late the same year.

• Constituted as the1st Airdrome Squadron on 7 November 1942

Activated on 20 November 1942

Redesignated460th Fighter Squadron, Single Engine on 14 July 1944

Inactivated on 20 February 1946

• Redesignated460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 23 March 1953

Activated on 18 March 1954^[3]

Discontinued on 25 March 1966

• Activated on 1 September 1968 (not organized)

Organized on 30 September 1968

Inactivated on 30 July 1974

• Redesignated460th Fighter-Interceptor Training Squadron on 1 October 1980

Activated on 15 November 1980

Inactivated on 15 October 1982

• Redesignated460th Test and Evaluation Squadron on 2023

Activated on 11 August 2023

• Air Service Command, 20 November 1942
• Second Air Force, 28 December 1942
• 16th Bombardment Training Wing, c. 15 February 1943
• Fifth Air Force, c. 1 June 1943 (attached to310th Bombardment Wing, 1 February 1944;85th Fighter Wing, c. 16 May–14 July 1944
• V Fighter Command, 14 July 1944
• 348th Fighter Group, 23 September 1944 – 20 February 1946
• 516th Air Defense Group, 18 March 1954
• 337th Fighter Group, 18 August 1955 – 25 March 1966^[3]
• 414th Fighter Group, 1 September 1968
• 408th Fighter Group, 1 December 1969
• 25th Air Division, 1 October 1970 – 30 July 1974
• Air Defense, Tactical Air Command, 15 November 1980
• 325th Fighter Weapons Wing, 15 August 1981 – 15 October 1982
• 926th Operations Group, 11 August 2023

• A-20 Havoc, 1944
• P-47 Thunderbolt, 1944–1945
• P-51 Mustang, 1945–1946
• F-86D Sabre Interceptor, 1954–1955
• F-89 Scorpion, 1955–1958
• F-102 Delta Dagger, 1958–1966; TF-102, 1982
• F-106 Delta Dart, 1968–1974

Notes

 This article incorporatespublic domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

• Cornett, Lloyd H; Johnson, Mildred W (1980).A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization, 1946–1980(PDF). Peterson AFB, CO: Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 13 February 2016. Retrieved23 March 2012.
• Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) [1961].Air Force Combat Units of World War II(PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History.ISBN 0-912799-02-1.LCCN 61060979. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 20 December 2016. Retrieved17 December 2016.
• Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969].Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II(PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History.ISBN 0-405-12194-6.LCCN 70605402.OCLC 72556. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 20 December 2016. Retrieved17 December 2016.
• "ADCOM's Fighter Interceptor Squadrons".The Interceptor.21 (1). Aerospace Defense Command:5–11,26–31,40–45,54–59. January 1979.
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE 460TH FIGHTER SQUADRON PRESENTED DURING THE MEMORIAL DEDICATION CEREMONY AT THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE MUSEUM WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO, 20 MAY 1991
• 460th Fighter Interceptor Squadron pdf

• Training squadrons of the United States Air Force
• Fighter squadrons of the United States Air Force
• Aerospace Defense Command units
• 1942 establishments in the United States
• Test and evaluation squadrons of the United States Air Force

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