The 408th Armament Systems Group is an inactive United States Air Force (USAF) unit. Its last assignment was with Air Force Materiel Command's 308th Armament Systems Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. It was inactivated in 2010.
The group was first activated at Key Field, Mississippi in 1943 as the 408th Bombardment Group, and equipped with single engine attack aircraft. It became a fighter-bomber group later that year when the Army Air Forces (AAF) renamed its dive bomber units. The group was an operational and replacement training unit until it was disbanded in the spring of 1944 when the AAF reorganized its training and support units on a functional basis.
The group was reactivated in 1956 at Klamath Falls Municipal Airport, Oregon as the 408th Fighter Group, an air defense unit. For the first three years at Klamath Falls (renamed Kingsley Field) it managed the construction of USAF facilities and provided support to Air Defense Command units there and at Keno Air Force Station. It received McDonnell F-101 Voodoos in 1959 and until it was inactivated in 1970, provided air defense in the northwestern United States with Voodoos and, later, with Convair F-106 Delta Darts.
In 2006 the group was activated once again as the 408th Armament Systems Group when Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) reorganized to replace its traditional systems management offices with wings, groups and squadrons. It provided armament acquisition support until inactivating in 2010 when AFMC returned to its previous organizational model.
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