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Did any of you have a missile silo on or near your land? If so how close could you farm next to it? Maybe we should have kept them in operation with all that's going on in the world. Stan
till enough to blow up a lot of earth. :!:(quoted from post at 13:45:56 08/28/14) Did any of you have a missile silo on or near your land? If so how close could you farm next to it? Maybe we should have kept them in operation with all that's going on in the world. Stan
(quoted from post at 14:58:03 08/28/14) There are a lot in western SD and some still live. Fellow worker (Worked for competitor at the time) was plowing fiber optics for the telephone exchange out there. Cut a fiber near a silo. Black SUV with blacked out windows where there in minutes. Plow crew immediately left the area. They didn't even have there fiber cables known by the local telephone company.
(quoted from post at 11:05:54 08/28/14)
Somewhat obsolete . Easier, cheaper and more flexible to drop a guided gravity bomb, SAM or a cruise missile.
(quoted from post at 12:31:58 08/28/14) There are several here in KS. One about 1/2 mile from my Brother. There is pasture all around it, but some different people lived in a trailer house on the property. It probably only covers a couple of acres or so. I would assume you could farm right up against it.
The ones around here were the old Minutemen Missiles from the Cold War.
(quoted from post at 06:45:49 08/29/14)(quoted from post at 12:31:58 08/28/14) There are several here in KS. One about 1/2 mile from my Brother. There is pasture all around it, but some different people lived in a trailer house on the property. It probably only covers a couple of acres or so. I would assume you could farm right up against it.
The ones around here were the old Minutemen Missiles from the Cold War.
I heard each site covered 40 acres 8)
(quoted from post at 13:34:28 08/29/14) I thought nukes were suppose to detonate well above the surface for maximum effect, like a 1/2 mile or something. You don't need great accuracy for that. I also remember that the minute man missiles carried 60 small nukes inside of them, each one having it's own target.
I could be remembering wrong though.
(quoted from post at 15:28:01 08/29/14) Rick you are correct. The Minutuman 111 has 3 MIRV warehads. Or as the guys at the Grand Forks AFB called them, the "physics package". MIRV for those that don't now is Multipal Independently Targetable Reentery Vehicale. The much larger MX Peacekeeper had 10, and they were much more powerful. They are gone now, the rockets used to launch civilian communication stuff. The early 1980's were a interesting time to be im the Army in Germany.
(quoted from post at 15:28:31 08/30/14) I would have to wonder if a silo or command center was attacked by a nuke would it work ? Would the communication cables work, would the rocked in the silo get knocked off its foundation or whatever it is called.
(quoted from post at 20:58:14 08/29/14) 1 St Battalion, 33 rd Armour, 3rd Armoured Division. Gelnhausen, 1982-1984 M60A3 crewmember.
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