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You Can Own This Former ICBM Silo in the Arizona Desert
Popular Mechanics ^ | November 15, 2019 | Kyle Mizokami

Posted on 11/15/2019 10:17:33 AM PST by C19fan

If you’re looking for someplace different to live, and by that we mean really, really different, there’s really nothing quite like a former underground nuclear missile silo in the middle of the Arizona desert. A former Titan II missile complex, the complex is a fixer upper and ready to become one of the few homes that once stood ready to pummel America’s enemies with the destructive force of 9,000,000 tons of TNT.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: icbm; missile
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To: C19fan

No thanks. When China decides to bomb us, they’ll be using old maps and blam! there goes all those old military silos.


61 posted on 11/15/2019 12:21:57 PM PST by bgill
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To: BenLurkin

On 12 acres. Not bad


62 posted on 11/15/2019 12:25:47 PM PST by precisionshootist
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To: precisionshootist

Is Oscar 1 in South Dakota available?


63 posted on 11/15/2019 1:11:24 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (When you think about what the left is doing to America, think no further than Cloward-Piven)
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To: dragnet2
"It could be sandblasted in a few days."

I started thinking about that. Heck, you're surrounded by sand.

There's a part of me that would love to tackle that project. That'd be one of the largest gun safes in the world.

64 posted on 11/15/2019 1:12:23 PM PST by moovova
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To: C19fan

Who would want to live in this tomb without sunlight and the need for fans to move in air from the outside?


65 posted on 11/15/2019 1:14:24 PM PST by jonrick46
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To: jonrick46

“Who would want to live in this tomb without sunlight and the need for fans to move in air from the outside?”

Exactly.


66 posted on 11/15/2019 1:34:17 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: C19fan

I think everyone missed you get the command and control but not the silo. It has been destroyed ad filled with cement and stuff.


67 posted on 11/15/2019 1:35:35 PM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: Boogieman

I could do that. So many years of bring everyone’s mr.fixit or mr. take-care-of-it has gotten me to the point I can do without people for long periods.

DVDS instead of tapes and let me pick the MREs and leave me alone.

I have my Kojak and SWAT board games.


68 posted on 11/15/2019 1:56:51 PM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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To: BlueLancer

Don’t forget the season one two part finale of Sledge Hammer.


69 posted on 11/15/2019 1:59:41 PM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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To: BlueLancer

#5 Comes with a Stargate too.


70 posted on 11/15/2019 3:10:19 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: C19fan

I’d convert the silo into a garage with an elevator platform.


71 posted on 11/15/2019 3:15:40 PM PST by AF_Blue (My decision-making skills closely resemble those of a squirrel when crossing a road)
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To: BenLurkin

#11 I read a book where the personnel were viewing a slide at a meeting showing the radius of the hole the H-bomb would create.

One noticed that they were in that radius.... and they were underground in a silo like the one you posted.


72 posted on 11/15/2019 3:17:50 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: setter
How does the air ventilation system work? Are there numerous vent pipes sticking up out of the ground?

In the case of a total economic collapse could not people above ground just stuff up the vent pipes?

There is one air intake shaft leading into the Launch Control Center (LCC). The LCC is the only part of the Titan II complexes that are accessible as the Long Cableway and the Silo and Silo Equipment Area have been destroyed and are filled in.

The air in the LCC is exhausted out into the Access Portal/Blast Lock Area and, in the current configuration, would go topside via the access portal.

When the sites were operational the air would go down the Long Cableway and into the Silo equipment Area where it would be vented topside via the exhaust fans in the Silo Equipment Area. The air pressure in the LCC was always kept higher than the Access Portal, and the Access Portal air pressure was higher than the Silo Equipment Area so there was always positive air flow away from the LCC. This was to ensure any leaking fuel or oxidizer did not enter the LCC.

The complexes were built to withstand a near-miss from a nuclear detonation so the Air Intake Shaft could be easily filled in with enough dirt.

73 posted on 11/15/2019 3:42:42 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: jerod
So you could sit in this bunker, fire off a ICBM towards Russia and you had to go out doors to wiz?

When the complexes were operational there was a 500 gallon sewage holding tank down on Level 3 of the Launch Control Center. On top of that tank were two Sewage Ejection Pumps that would turn on to eject the sewage topside.

74 posted on 11/15/2019 3:46:44 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Zathras
It was originally a training facility and was used in Star Trek First Contact.

Complex 571-7, the museum, was an operational site. Because of its closeness to the base it was used a lot by the Wing Instructor crews to take their students out for their training Alerts.

It was used for the movie.

75 posted on 11/15/2019 3:49:57 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: TonyM
My USAF career was as a Command & Control Specialist and about 14 years of which was as an Emergency Actions Controller (nuclear weapons control) at various locations, all hardened locations with no windows and one assignment three stories underground.

Thank God and you for your service.

I did not mind being underground at all and if I were a younger man I would love to buy one of the old silos and make a home out of it.

Employee discount?

76 posted on 11/15/2019 5:08:01 PM PST by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: C19fan

With my luck, I’d get it all fixed up and Putin would have out of date info and drop a nuke on me.


77 posted on 11/15/2019 5:11:05 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: C19fan

I’d hate to even guess how much lead and asbestos would have to be abated just to safely walk about the place without a hazmat suit and SCBA...


78 posted on 11/15/2019 7:37:25 PM PST by weeweed (Proud Costco University graduate)
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To: C19fan

Just saw a piece last week about a couple who bought one of these in Kansas many years ago. After the US had built it for $50 million (?), he was happy to get it for $40K. Fixed it up pretty nice.

It may have been an old episode of How the States Got Their Shape on History channel.


79 posted on 11/16/2019 2:37:21 AM PST by gnickgnack2 ( Another bad day for Trump, he only got seven major things accomplished .)
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To: C19fan

If this is the one south of Tuscon, it’s close to the Mexico border.


80 posted on 11/16/2019 9:19:43 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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