Launch Complex 3 (LC-3) is a deactivated US Air Force launch site southeast of SLC-36 on Cape Canaveral Florida at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It was constructed with launch complexes 1 2 and 4 in the early 1950s for the Snark missile program.It was formerly used to launch Bumper BOMARC UGM-27 Polaris and Lockheed X-17 missiles. The pad was also the site of the first launch from Cape Canaveral a Bumper rocket on July 24 1950.