Car Club Field Trip

66fyssh said

That's awesome. I didn't know there was a Titan II muesum.

My first assignment in the Air Force in 1985 was in missile radio at McConnell AFB in Kansas. I made it down into a Titan II active silo before they started deactivating them. Then I got down a number of times after deactivating.

Sure is a big bomb (well pretty small for the damage it can do) attached to a large missile!!

I did training for the Ground Launched Cruise Missile system at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tuscon in 1987, but didn't hear about the museum. I need to put that on my bucket list!!!

Great pictures, thanks for sharing!!

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This Silo was saved from destruction by a group of people including its last commander. They still had to de-militarize the site to satisfy the the SALT requirements. If you notice the picture of the missle there’s a window cut out so that the Soviets could verify there was no warhead. The missle in the picture was a training missile. The guys giving the briefing were actual silocommanders back in the day. There was some ream doomsday stuff discussed.

Real 60s technology. The info for the guidance system was on tapes and manually loaded into the computer. The crew had no idea what the target would be. They actually went through a launch sequence.