The United States' Airborne Launch Control Center (ALCC) is a component of the Airborne Launch Control System

Airborne Launch Control System

The United States' Airborne Launch Control System is a method of assured command and control of nuclear weapons, specifically ICBMs and SLBMs...

, the emergency back-up means of launching the United States' ICBM force. Specifically, the ALCC is defined as the station located aboard the ALCS aircraft from which missile preparation and launch commands may be sent to accessed LGM-30 Minuteman

LGM-30 Minuteman

The LGM-30 Minuteman is a U.S. nuclear missile, a land-based intercontinental ballistic missile . As of 2010, the version LGM-30G Minuteman-III is the only land-based ICBM in service in the United States...

 missile launch facilities (LFs).

See also

• Airborne Launch Control System
  Airborne Launch Control System
  The United States' Airborne Launch Control System is a method of assured command and control of nuclear weapons, specifically ICBMs and SLBMs...
  
  
• Post Attack Command and Control System
  Post Attack Command and Control System
  The Post Attack Command and Control System was a network of communication sites for use before, during and after a nuclear attack on the United States. PACCS was designed to ensure that National Command Authority would retain sole, exclusive, and complete control over US nuclear weapons...
  
  
• TACAMO
  TACAMO
  TACAMO is a U.S. military term meaning "Take Charge and Move Out". TACAMO refers to a system of survivable communications links designed to be used in nuclear war to maintain communications between the decision makers and the triad of strategic nuclear weapon delivery systems...
  
   - "Take Charge and Move Out" mission of the E-6 Mercury
• Operation Looking Glass - Boeing EC-135
  Boeing EC-135
  The Boeing EC-135 was a command & control version of the C-135 Stratolifter. Modified for the "Looking Glass" program, during the Cold War EC-135 were airborne 24 hours a day to serve as flying command platforms for the military in the event of nuclear war...
  
   aircraft mission
• Emergency Rocket Communications System
  Emergency Rocket Communications System
  The Emergency Rocket Communications System was a back-up communications method for the United States National Command Authority, using a UHF repeater placed atop a Blue Scout rocket or Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile. ERCS was deactivated as a communication means when President...
  
   - used shared UHF equipment at Launch facilities
  Launch facility (ICBM)
  A launch facility , also known as a missile silo, is an underground vertical cylindrical container for the storage and launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles . They typically have the missile some distance under the surface, protected by a large "blast door" on top...