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Topic: Missile silo

	Titan II Missile Complex
		Each Titan II silo was directly connected to an underground launch control capsule manned by a missile combat crew of two officers and two airman.
		To deflect and channel the exhaust gases, each silo was fitted with a flame deflector at the base and two exhaust ducts that ran up the length of the silo and vented to the surface.
		The silo was covered with a steel and concrete door that weighed 740 tons and could be opened in 17 to 20 seconds.
	www.strategic-air-command.com /missiles/Titan/Titan_II_missile_complex.htm (465 words)

	Missile silo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The missile silo was first suggested in the 1950s in the United Kingdom as a suitable housing for Blue Streak missiles.
		Only one test missile silo was built in the UK at RAF Spadeadam and with the cancellation of the Blue Streak project in 1960 the UK ICBM nuclear missile capability was transferred to submarines.
		The Titan I missile used a similar silo basing scheme to the Atlas F. Things changed with the introduction of the US Titan missile and the Soviet UR-100 missile series.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Missile_silo (564 words)

	Vandenberg AFB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Missile fell to bottom of silo and exploded.
		The facility was designed to prove that a missile could be fired from inside a silo and develop construction methods.
		By the fall of 1960, four Titan I lift silos had been completed with three training silos (395 A-1,-2, and -3) grouped at one complex and a fourth located in a sepa- rate area.
	www.geocities.com /titan_1_missile/vandenberg.html (766 words)

	Silo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Information silo, a computer system that does not provide efficient machine communication systems to other computers.
		Silo (genus), a genus of pterygot insects of the family of the Goeridae
		SILO (boot loader), the standard bootloader for SPARC computers running Linux
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silo (138 words)

	MissileThreat :: SS-27
		Hidden safely within missile silos and mobile launchers, a successful boost-phase interceptor would have to be fired from near or within Russian borders or from space.
		The first silo-based missile regiment was declared operational in 1998, with a second in 1999, a third in 2000 and a fourth in 2003.
		Missiles of the previous generation will in practical terms be incapable of alert status by that time, they are becoming obsolescent…Certainly, Topol-M is the most modern missile.
	www.missilethreat.com /missilesoftheworld/id.145/missile_detail.asp (2817 words)

	MissileThreat :: SS-19 Mod 2
		Both missiles are similar to the US Minuteman design, and the simultaneous development of the two missiles is considered evidence of a Soviet to ensure at least one of the two ‘light’ ICBMs entered service.
		He attributed the extension of the missile’s usability to “good maintenance.” Equally relevant, however, is the cash-strapped nature of the advanced Topol-M (SS-27) missile deployment, which continues to proceed but is currently behind schedule in producing replacing older ICBMs.
		Missiles previously slated to be destroyed under the now obsolete START II Treaty will continue to be an important part of Russia’s massive offensive nuclear arsenal for another ten to fifteen years, commented top general Nikolai Solovtsov, chief of the country’s Strategic Missile Forces.
	www.missilethreat.com /missilesoftheworld/id.138/missile_detail.asp (1498 words)

	About the Silo :. s i l o b o y d o t c o m .: Home of the 556th Strategic Missile Squadron 1962-1965, INTERCONTINENTAL ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The end game is to convert the Silo into a functioning party venue, a reuse of the extraordinary space that's been left behind, and a use that I've devoted considerable thought and resources to.
		Drawing on the 1.3 million young people within a two hour radius, the Silo, which has been completely salvaged down to the level of the Utility Tunnel, will be one of the most inspiring and unique spaces ever to be used for such a use.
		The missile silo is a huge structure 52 feet in diameter and approximately 185 feet deep.
	www.siloboy.com /silohome.htm (868 words)

	Burns' at Altus AFB, Oklahoma
		The LCC and the silo were suspended from huge springs to help absorb the shock of a near direct hit.
		Here is an artist's sketch of the LCC and missile silo combo cross section(left), and a silo scan from the General Dynamics pamphlet which the contractor passed out(right).
		During all launch or maintenance activity which required lifting the missile on the elevator, both diesels were run in parallel to carry the load.
	www.frontiernet.net /~bobhc/Altus_1.html (1072 words)

	titan missile silo
		The missile compound is broken into three parts: The entryway which includes a stairwell, with a pair of blast doors leading to the "hardened" part of the site, the three-story command center, and the seven-level silo itself.
		This level had the controls for launching the missile and for monitoring the operations of the entire complex.
		The missile silo was a reinforced concrete structure with inside dimensions of approximately 146 feet in depth and 55 feet in diameter.
	www.polarinertia.com /jan04/titan01.htm (363 words)

	R-16
		Development of the R-16U universal version of the missile, for either pad or silo launch, and the 8P764 launch silo, was begun in March 1960.
		Modifications to the missile for silo launch included the use of inert nitrogen gas propellant tank pressurisation and modifications to the vernier steering engines of the first stage.
		Four variant silo designs were studied, the draft projects for them being completed in Mach 1960, October 1960, and the final one in March 1961.
	www.astronautix.com /lvs/r16.htm (3040 words)

	Silo@Everything2.com
		These enclosures were used to raise missiles perpendicular to the ground and launch them, usually for impact on ground owned by someone disliked by the silo's builder.
		But when our silo is supposedly empty, there is actually a good deal of flour floating in the air, like dust.
		SILO is actually stored in PROM and can be used to select an operating system during boot in a similar fashion to LILO.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node=silo (397 words)

	Roswell Online - Environs - Silo 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This stairway allows access to the living area (3rd level), the control area (2nd level), and the missile area (1st level) which is accessed from a short tunnel at the bottom of these stairs.
		The floor is independent of the structure and is supported by coiled springs to insulate the occupants from the shock of a blast in the silo.
		The silo doors are visible as is a housing for the silo door opening system.
	www.roswell-online.com /environs/m_silos/silo2.htm (385 words)

	Texas Missile Silo TX page
		Getting from the entrance on the surface to the silo's diver staging area requires divers to haul their gear down five flights of stairs, through two corridors that are flanked by large blast doors and into a large room that once housed the silo's control center and living area.
		During the third dive outing at the silo, a few advanced student divers earned deep-diving certifications so the idea of marketing dive-training trips in addition to recreational "fun" dives gave the Hannifins the idea of converting the silo from a residential property to a commercial one.
		While portions of the surface skills could be conducted in the silo, Hannifin said the rest of the rescue class' dives would be held in a shallower lake area.
	www.dtmag.com /dive-usa/TexasMissileSiloTX.html (1397 words)

	FEW Museum: Atlas (SM-65) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The missile launch and service building was a 105- by 100-foot structure with a central bay in which the missile was stored horizontally.
		Within the silo the missile and its support system were supported by a steel framework called the crib, which hung from the walls of the silo on four sets of huge springs.
		In the firing sequence the missile was fueled, lifted by an elevator to the mouth of the silo, and then fired.
	www.pawnee.com /fewmuseum/atlas.htm (3104 words)

	US Blows Up Last Missile Silo For Cold War Treaty
		Military officials attending the event expressed mixed emotions, including sadness for the end of an era in which the missile silos were a key component of U.S. defense, but also approval of the move to disarmament.
		The U.S. military still maintains several hundred Minuteman III missiles in silos located at Air Force bases in Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota, but the 150 silos that were part of the Grand Forks Air Force Base command have all now been dismantled, with the exception of one.
		The missile silo destroyed on Friday was one of a group of 15 such silos controlled by a single launch facility where around- the-clock crews once stood ready to push the buttons needed to fire the missiles if ordered.
	www.rense.com /general13/coldw.htm (543 words)

	Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 (571-7) Military Reservation -- Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National ...
		The Titan II missiles were contructed to survive a first strike nuclear attack from the Soviet Union and to retaliate.
		Built in response to the "missile gap" panic of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Titan II Missile Site 571-7 provides a unique window into the design, construction and operation of a weapon system built to survive a first-strike nuclear attack and be able to launch its missile if so ordered.
		The missile silo was covered by 740-ton silo closure door to protect the missile from nearby blast, radiation or inclement weather.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/air.htm (1030 words)

	ABQjournal: Roswell Company Stores Customer Data in Missile Silo
		Twelve Atlas F missile silos, built near Roswell in the early 1960s and abandoned in 1965, eventually were put up for auction.
		Nine silos in the Roswell area are full of water or have been filled in, and one is privately owned, Baker said.
		In fact, missile silos were often the topic of dinner conversations growing up, he said.
	www.abqjournal.com /biz/outlook/103568outlook10-30-03.htm (933 words)

	CNN.com - Abandoned missile silos become safe homes - Aug. 2, 2003
		The Zwonitzers have turned the old generator room of their Atlas E missile silo home into a cavernous recreation room.
		Built in 1960, Atlas E silos not only cradled the most powerful weapon of the time, they were designed to withstand a 1-megaton blast a mile away.
		When solid-fuel missiles rendered the liquid-fuel Atlas E obsolete in 1965, the government all but gave away the silos to farmers, ranchers and local governments.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/Central/08/02/silo.sweet.silo (705 words)

	Minuteman Missile NHS: History
		Beneath the prairie, in an area encompassing 13,500 square miles, were 150 underground missile silos, each equipped with a nuclear-armed Minuteman.
		When alarms indicated that a missile silo area may have been breached, the guards also dispatched and monitored the armed response teams.
		If the missile or one of its major components had to be removed or replaced, maintenance workers used a cogged rail in the middle of the track apron to slowly jack the door open.
	www.nps.gov /mimi/history/srs/sites.htm (2723 words)

	Minuteman missile silo destroyed
		So it was a day of celebration for Burnez on Monday when the last of the nation's workable Minuteman II missile silos was destroyed, and he brought his wife and six children to watch.
		As the blast echoed across the pasture and a puff of smoke rose from the silo, the crowd whooped and cheered.
		The silo was the last of 150 in Missouri that once contained Minuteman II missiles aimed at targets in the Soviet Union.
	www.th-record.com /1997/12-17-97/minute.htm (368 words)

	Cold War Memories
		The unassuming face of Minuteman missile facilities: nondescript surface buildings of Delta One (left) [LARGER IMAGE] beneath which launch crews manned a subterranean capsule controlling ten missiles; launch facility (silo) Delta Nine is marked only by a fenced enclosure scarcely noticeable against the Badlands in the background (right).
		As for Ellsworth, the first missile was removed from its silo in December 1991, and on July 4, 1994 the 44th Missile Wing was deactivated; except for Delta One and Delta Nine, the facilities have all been destroyed.
		For example, oral histories of the missileers who worked at Ellsworth AFB have already been recorded."It is the story of the people of South Dakota and other states who lived alongside military installations," says Pavek, one of those interviewed and recorded.
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/icbm (1599 words)

	trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		ICBM vulnerability refers to the danger that the missiles may be attacked in their silos, and the green colour is related to one aspect of vulnerability.
		A World War II German antishipping missile had a guidance system involving a rod lowered to the surface of the ocean to sense the missile's altitude.
		An early plan for the Polaris missile had the submarine releasing a column of soap bubbles, and the missile rising up through the froth, which would be less dense than seawater.
	www.polisci.ucla.edu /faculty/boneill/trivia.html (2407 words)

	Missile Silo Bachelor Pad, Oplin, Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Strategic Air Command constructed hundreds of intercontinental missile silos in under-populated parts of the country.
		We peer down into the Atlas missile silo -- we'd heard Bruce managed to open one of the multi-ton, 3-ft.thick blast doors in 2002 for the first time in decades.
		Bruce knows all the local silos; he points at a map and rattles off status: "This one is owned by the school district, and it's filled with water...this one has been completely stripped...
	www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/TXOPLmissile.html (1131 words)

	CJOnline.com \| The Topeka Capital-Journal \| LSD lab as scary as missile site 11/22/00
		She had no idea that seven years later, Drug Enforcement Administration officials would dismantle a drug laboratory in the otherwise empty missile silo that could have been equally lethal to her family.
		Lada said she was inside the silo about seven years ago before the present owners purchased it.
		Seele, who said he was in the silo three years ago when the owners showed interest in purchasing his property, said he saw only padlocked doors when he went underground.
	www.cjonline.com /webindepth/missilesilos/stories/112200_lsdlab.shtml (966 words)

	Titan Missile Museum - Tucson Arizona Titan II Missile Silo
		When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours.
		After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public.
		The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.
	www.thepepper.com /tucson_titan_missile.html (314 words)

	CNN.com - Abandoned missile silos become safe homes - Aug. 2, 2003
		The Zwonitzers have turned the old generator room of their Atlas E missile silo home into a cavernous recreation room.
		Built in 1960, Atlas E silos not only cradled the most powerful weapon of the time, they were designed to withstand a 1-megaton blast a mile away.
		When solid-fuel missiles rendered the liquid-fuel Atlas E obsolete in 1965, the government all but gave away the silos to farmers, ranchers and local governments.
	cnn.com /2003/US/Central/08/02/silo.sweet.silo (695 words)

	Pacifist nuns return to missile silo - Boston.com
		Three pacifist nuns who were jailed for an October 2002 protest at a missile silo returned to the site, vowing to continue their nonviolent resistance to the nuclear armaments.
		BRIGGSDALE, Colo. --Three pacifist nuns who were jailed for an October 2002 protest at a missile silo returned to the site, vowing to continue their nonviolent resistance to the nuclear armaments.
		The three were arrested in October 2002 after they allegedly cut a chain link fence surrounding a Minuteman III missile silo in Weld County, despite signs warning that deadly force could be used against intruders.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/04/05/pacifist_nuns_return_to_missile_silo?mode=PF (316 words)

	Boeing: Boeing Completes Missile Defense Silo Modification Tests
		The tests validated several silo modifications, including operation of the lateral support group -- the three "arms" that stabilize the interceptor inside the silo -- and the opening of the silo closure mechanism, or clamshell doors.
		The missile defense complex at Vandenberg AFB is one of two U.S. installations with long-range interceptor missiles.
		Silos at both sites will be retrofitted with the tested modifications.
	www.boeing.com /news/releases/2006/q2/060510b_nr.html (391 words)

	Defense Tech: Clowns Sabotage Nuke Missile
		On Tuesday morning, a retired Catholic priest and two veterans put on clown suits, busted into a nuclear missile launch facility, and began beating the silo cover with hammers, in an attempt to take the Minuteman III missile off-line.
		The trio -- members of the Luck, Wisconsin group Nukewatch -- said the break-in was part of "a call for national repentance" for the Hiroshima and Nagaski A-bombings in 1945.
		All these "clowns" did was to trigger both the outer zone and inner zone security alarms but first getting to the topside of the facility and then banging on the launcher closure door.
	www.defensetech.org /archives/002531.html (570 words)

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