For safety reasons, tours are not conducted underground. Army Nike Ajax and Hercules surface-to-air missiles and anti. Located just north of the Maryland border, three hours west of Philadelphia and a short distance from Washington, D.C., it's clearly labeled on Google Maps and been documented in books and. That’s abandoned Marlton Missile Base (also known as abandoned Nike Missile B. The site is in Collier Township, Pennsylvania at one of the highest points in surrounding Allegheny County. The door to the silo has been welded and fitted with a glass roof, and an unarmed missile placed inside. Today I want to share a curious location exploration, a legacy of the Cold War. The silo has been decommissioned, but it was once the home of the Titan II, which was the largest intercontinental ballistic missile in the Air. The launch facility consists of a silo 12 feet in diameter and 80 feet deep made of reinforced concrete with a steel-plate liner. The for-sale plot, a 50-acre former missile site and command bunker, is surrounded by double fences and sits a short drive from other sites that formed the Stanley R. A recent report in the Guardian says that there’s one for sale near Tucson, Arizona, for a fairly reasonable price, just under 400,000. In total there were 1,000 Minuteman missiles deployed from the 1960's into the early 1990's. The Delta-09 missile silo was one of 150 spread across western South Dakota. As visitors look through the Delta-09 viewing enclosure at a Minuteman II missile, a Park Ranger answers questions.įrom 1963 until the early 1990s, the missile silo at Delta-09 contained a fully operational Minuteman Missile, bearing a 1.2 megaton nuclear warhead.
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