Posted on 03/08/2010 10:42:32 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
A new missile was installed in a silo at Fort Greely last month, the 22nd interceptor at the Missile Defense Agency site outside Delta Junction.
Ralph Scott, the spokesman for Alaska Missile Defense, said the latest installation is part of an effort to steadily add missiles at the site. The Defense Department has plans to install 26 missiles at Fort Greely, with the process to be completed by October.
Fort Greely is one of two sites in the U.S. with deployed interceptor missiles, according to the Missile Defense Agency Web site, joining three missiles at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The project is designed to defend the U.S. against a limited long-range ballistic missile attack by shooting down enemy warheads outside the earth’s atmosphere.
The first interceptor missiles were installed at Fort Greely in 2004. The Bush administration initially planned to install 40 missiles at the former U.S. Army post, but the project has been revised throughout time. President Obama plans to cap the number of interceptors at 26 at Fort Greely.
Scott said the missiles, which are about 54 feet long and 4 feet in diameter, are flown to Fort Greely in two pieces on U.S. Air Force transport planes and assembled on site.
The new missiles are being installed at Missile Fields No. 2 and No. 3. Missiles at the original field, which held six interceptors, are being moved to those fields because of plumbing problems and other reliability concerns that have emerged at the hastily built early silos.
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YEA.
Except mostly on the East Coast and thru the Gulf & to regain Alaska.
China’s been allotted the East Coast and through Mexico.
There was, at the time, not a significant population at the post and it was not heavily patrolled. However, the high-security areas were a wholly different matter and there was a significant security presence in those areas.
To be fair, I have not been there since early (January/February) 1997. Things have undoubtedly changed in terms of operations. I still have civilian friends up there and know a few people stationed there, as well. I think we’re in pretty good hands.
Ft Greeley enjoys the same protection as our ICBM fields.
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