Note: Launchers converted to Hercules are given in paraenthesis, e.g. Missile Launcher: A=Ajax AA=Double Ajax launchers AG=Above Ground H=Hecrules L=Launcher K=Unoffical designation for Alaskan above ground launchers U=Uniersal launcher UA=1/2 Universal and 1/2 Ajax launchers UU=Double Univeral launchers D= Either, increaed access room in the magazine Missile Storage: C=Ajax only, original design B=Ajax or Hercules, some modifications were required for the elevator to handle the Hercules launcher. There are additional locations that cover the Saint Louis Area in Missouri. The launch site was established in Redmond, Washington, in 1957 as the last line of defense against the Soviet. Note that there are additional locations that cover the Chicago Area in Indiana. The abandoned Nike Nuclear Missile Site S-13/14 outside of Seattle is such a place. The areas in black denote deactivated missile wings, the areas in red denote the active missile wings.Intact, Abandoned, Pere Marquette State Park Map showing the areas of the six Minuteman Missile wings on the central and northern Great Plains.
ABANDONED MISSILE SILO LOCATIONS PDF
United States Minuteman Missile Wings - 272KB PDF For instance, from Launch Facility (Missile Silo) Delta-09 to Moscow was approximately 5,100 miles.Ģ) Protection - Minuteman sites away from America's coastlines meant more warning time if submarines launched from off the coasts.ģ) Far Away From Population Centers - Minuteman sites on the sparsely populated Great Plains meant less lives were directly at risk from nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. The following are considered the three major ones:ġ) Distance - The shortest distance to the Soviet Union - the United States main opponent during the Cold War - was over the North Pole. There was a multiplicity of reasons that Minuteman's were sited in the Great Plains region. The 174-foot inverted tower of reinforced concrete with a two-story launch control center a Cold War. Two of the upgraded missile sites were located within the Hartford region, at East Windsor and Cromwell. And for 550,000, the subterranean missile silo 5 miles west of York can be yours to own.
Beginning in the late 1950s, three of the sites were upgraded toutilize an improved, second-generation Nike Hercules. Why Minuteman sites were constructed on the Great Plains Connecticut's Nike missile batteries were initially equipped with the first-generation Nike missile, the Nike Ajax. In 1990 I was 10 years old hiking through the Flint Hills of Kansas with a friend, in the middle of rolling hills we found a decommissioned Cold War era Atlas E. From the mid-1960s until the early 1990s there were 1,000 Minuteman Silos and 100 corresponding Launch Control Facilities for command and control. They could also be remotely controlled from Launch Control Centers miles away from the actual silos, allowing sites to be dispersed over a wide geographic area. Former Titan I Missile Complex with the 569th Strategic Missile Squadron. Opened in 1962, the base once housed second. Due to its solid fuel technology, the missiles could be mass produced. 2018 Nigrande, Latvia The entrance to a support bunker is framed by overgrown greenery at the now-defunct Nigrande Missile Base. The most common sites have been the Minuteman. Address: Altus, OK, USA The OIYS Visitor Center Abandoned Missile Silo in Oklahoma DecemTori Jane What are some creepy abandoned places in Oklahoma There are more than 2,000 known ghost towns all over the Sooner State, and with a number that high there’s bound to be all sorts of interesting, abandoned places in Oklahoma.
The silos were 174 feet deep and 54 feet in diameter. One of 12 Atlas F ICBM sites in NY and VT which ringed Plattsburgh Air Force Base during the Cold War. Since that time there have been hundreds of Atlas, Titan, Minuteman and Peacekeeper sites constructed all the way from Texas to North Dakota, New Mexico to Montana. Site 7 of the 556th Strategic Missile Squadron, Plattsburgh. The first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) silos arrived on the Great Plains in 1959 when Atlas sites were constructed in Wyoming. "A nuclear missile silo is one of the quintessential Great Plains objects: to the eye, it is almost nothing, just one or two acres of ground with a concrete slab in the middle and some posts and poles sticking up behind an eight-foot-high cyclone fence: but to the imagination, it is the end of the world." Ian Frazier, Great Plains, 1989 Aerial view of the Delta-09 launch facility view towards southwest, 1992.
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