communications, and intelligence (C3I) techniques. Around the same time it embarked on the electronic warfare evaluation program, and continued OT&E of aviation weapon systems for TAC and later Air Combat Command, the Department of Defense, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. From 1983 to present, responsible for the operational testing and evaluation (OT&E) of all Air Force aircraft/weapons systems, and providing range control for live-firing missile programs on the Gulf range and aerial targets, using full scale and subscale drones. In September 1995, the 53d Tactical Fighter Group and USAF Air Warfare Center were consolidated and the consolidated unit was redesignated as the 53d Wing the following month. In 2021 on the activation of the 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing, the 53rd Electronic Warfare Group was inactivated, broken up, and its units transferred to the new wing. Lineage Group Constituted as the 53d Pursuit Group (Interceptor) on 20 November 1940 Activated on 15 January 1941 Redesignated as the 53d Fighter Group on 15 May 1942 Disbanded on 1 May 1944 Reconstituted and redesignated as the 53d Fighter Group (Air Defense), on 20 June 1955 Activated on 18 August 1955 Discontinued on 1 April 1960 Redesignated as the 53d Tactical Fighter Group on 31 July 31, 1985 Consolidated with the USAF Air Warfare Center on 25 September 1995 (consolidated unit designated the USAF Air Warfare Center) Center Designated and organized as the USAF Tactical Air Warfare Center on 1 November 1963 Redesignated as the USAF Air Warfare Center on 1 October 1991 Consolidated with the 53d Tactical Fighter Group on 25 September 1995 Consolidated Wing Redesignated as the 53d Wing on 1 October 1995 Assignments 22d Pursuit Wing, 15 January 1941 3d Interceptor (later III Fighter) Command, 2 October 1941 Caribbean (later, Sixth) Air Force, 1 January 1942 26th Interceptor (later, 26th Fighter, XXVI Fighter) Command, 6 March 1942 III Fighter Command, 26 November 1942 – 1 May 1944 31st Air Division, 18 August 1955 20th Air Division, 1 March 1956 Kansas City Air Defense Sector, 1 January 1960 – 1 April 1960 Tactical Air Command, 1 November 1963 Air Combat Command, 1 June 1992 United States Air Force Warfare Center, 1 October 1985 – present Stations MacDill Field, Florida, 15 January 1941 Dale Mabry Field, Tallahassee, Florida, 8 May 1941 – 8 December 1941 Howard Field, Panama Canal Zone, 1 January 1942 – 10 November 1942 Dale Mabry Field, Florida, 26