In the market for an ICBM?

[sam dupont]

Sales Brochure for a TITAN missile, by Martin.

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[kiwigtx]

No lowballers......I know what I got.

 

[SlinktRR]

That is the most bizarre thing I have ever seen. My dad worked on trident missiles in the USN back in the day, but I can't imagine him coming home with sales and marketing materials for them. Plus it reads like a kids bedtime story.

 

[Photon440]

Probably a propaganda tool. Give these pamphlets out at air shows or wherever, and the public gets assurance of some protection. Meanwhile, the soviet spy who picks one up thinks that if this information is being freely given out, how much more advanced is the real secret stuff?

 

[w.Hudson]

I'd buy that for a dollar

 

[69Bee]

You should visit the Titan missile museum in Green Valley AZ some time. Museum | Titan Missile Museum

 

[440Coronet500]

I could use a few of those, you know, just to say I have one! 440'

 

[sam dupont]

This comes from my "Paranoia File". I refer to it as that because Libraries call groups of information: Files. I have many different Files, this one I call Paranoia as some of the things in it are difficult to believe. This one to me, is funny. Anybody who can afford a Titan probably doesn't need to be "sold". they know what it can do and have the money to buy it.

 

[Photon440]

This comes from my "Paranoia File". I refer to it as that because Libraries call groups of information: Files. I have many different Files, this one I call Paranoia as some of the things in it are difficult to believe. This one to me, is funny. Anybody who can afford a Titan probably doesn't need to be "sold". they know what it can do and have the money to buy it.

I don't think the U.S. Airforce was really looking for customers for these rockets.

 

[sam dupont]

I think they also used them to put commercial satellites in space.

 

[sam dupont]

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

Scammers I paid and still have not recieved it!

 

[joe smith]

You should visit the Titan missile museum in Green Valley AZ some time. Museum | Titan Missile Museum

On the bucket list

 

[AR67GTX]

I was the Resident Engineer on the demolition of the Arkansas Titan II missile silos in the mid - late 80s. Well,most of them anyway - one was pre - demoed in the 70s when a worker in the silo dropped a big wrench socket that punctured the fuel tank, resulting shortly later in the missile blowing up, blew the blast doors off the silo and launched the unarmed nuclear warhead into a mortar-like trajectory into the darkness. It took the Air Force several nervous hours to find it. So we didn’t have much demo to perform on that one.

On the others the AF removed the missiles and I think they went to places like Vandenberg AFB to be used for various Satellite launches, etc. Our contractor cut up the blast doors (12 in thick steel from memory) with huge gas torches, drilled and shot the massive concrete headworks up, excavated the top of the silo and concrete rubble to a big cone, waited some period of time for Soviet satellites to photo and verify according to treaty, demoed the entrances/stairwell to the underground control center, pushed concrete rubble and other fill into the silo below until back flush with ground, and then the land was returned to the prior owner or otherwise sold. Arkansas did not retain one of the silos as AZ did which I think was short sighted. Interesting project.

 

[Richard Cranium]

More room in this...

 

[kiwigtx]

More room in this...


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Is that a 440 powered Winnebago?

 

[Budnicks]

I'll take 2

 

[Curiousyellow71]

I had a relative that somehow got the bid to salvage a nuclear missile silo. I believe in Missouri possibly late 70s. He didn't have to deal with the missile (I am sure the military took care of that) but it involved salvaging everything electrical and steel and the filling the cavity with dirt. I forget how many dump truck loads it took but it was a bunch. Such a big hole was likely a titan. I only learned about the salvage project after looking for some parts. He had salvaged a train that had derailed, and inside a box car was a missile command nuclear launch console...keys that you turn to launch and all. It was enormous... it was Pretty freeky to see at random in person. It would be in my man cave if I owned it. LOL

 

[Skytrooper]

You should visit the Titan missile museum in Green Valley AZ some time. Museum | Titan Missile Museum

I've been there !! It was fascinating to see the whole thing !

 

[dart4forte]

I've been there !! It was fascinating to see the whole thing !

Makes one think about the mindset back then. Listening to the former crew members talk about the what if senecios of surviving a nuclear strike.