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'''Command Data Buffer''' ('''CDB''') was a system used by the [[United States Air Force]]'s [[LGM-30 Minuteman|Minuteman]] ICBM force. CDB was a method to transfer targeting information from a Minuteman [[Launch control center (ICBM)|Launch Control Center]] to an individual missile by communications lines. Prior to CDB, new missile guidance would have to be physically loaded at the [[Launch facility (ICBM)|launch facility]]; the process usually took hours.It was made 1969, when it First came out it costed a Million now it is free

==History==

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==Phaseout==

CDB was replaced in the late 1990s by the [[Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting System|Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting]] system, currently in use by [[United States]] ICBM forces.<ref>[http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/react.htm FAS.org: Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting]</ref>

==See also==

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* [[LGM-30 Minuteman]]

* [[Launch control center (ICBM)]]

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[[Category:Computer memory]]

[[Category:Synchronization]]

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