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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No thanks. When China decides to bomb us, they’ll be using old maps and blam! there goes all those old military silos.
On 12 acres. Not bad
Is Oscar 1 in South Dakota available?
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.
Who would want to live in this tomb without sunlight and the need for fans to move in air from the outside?
“Who would want to live in this tomb without sunlight and the need for fans to move in air from the outside?”
Exactly.
I think everyone missed you get the command and control but not the silo. It has been destroyed ad filled with cement and stuff.
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.
Don’t forget the season one two part finale of Sledge Hammer.
#5 Comes with a Stargate too.
I’d convert the silo into a garage with an elevator platform.
#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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
With my luck, I’d get it all fixed up and Putin would have out of date info and drop a nuke on me.
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...
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.
If this is the one south of Tuscon, it’s close to the Mexico border.
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