Missile silo tour

Dynamite · 16 Feb 2013, 8:00 pm

I'm sure a few of you have seen this before but just thought I'd share an interesting read for those who haven't. I find it fascinating and wish we had something as cool as this in Aus!!

http://triggur.org/silo/

Enjoy!

Titan · 17 Feb 2013, 8:51 pm

Nice large installation

Suuuch a shame we have not got anything like it in here as you said

Thanks for sharing. (If you like this type of stuff i highly recommend you have a look at siloboys page)

Nick · 01 Mar 2013, 7:36 pm

I actually did a stack of research into this, as America didn't advertise itself as having ICBM silios, and so I couldn't rule out the possibility of there being some in Australia.

After spending a day in the state library reading declassified documents.

No dice for Missile Silos.

Panic! · 03 Mar 2013, 10:30 am

Kevin's site was the very first one on missile silo exploration. It was online in 1996 I think. It inspired me to explore missile silos in the USA.
I just realised that the silos must look very similar, because that looks exactly like the one I explored. I must get my site online again one day.

Dynamite · 03 Mar 2013, 7:15 pm

Panic! wrote:Kevin's site was the very first one on missile silo exploration. It was online in 1996 I think. It inspired me to explore missile silos in the USA.
I just realised that the silos must look very similar, because that looks exactly like the one I explored. I must get my site online again one day.

Jealous as!

Would absolutely love to visit something like this for myself one day. Better get the passport sorted lol

Panic! · 04 Mar 2013, 8:43 pm

Dynamite wrote:
Panic! wrote:Kevin's site was the very first one on missile silo exploration. It was online in 1996 I think. It inspired me to explore missile silos in the USA.
I just realised that the silos must look very similar, because that looks exactly like the one I explored. I must get my site online again one day.
Jealous as! Would absolutely love to visit something like this for myself one day. Better get the passport sorted lol

Hmm, you know an overseas UE trip next year would be a nice thing to do. I could certainly show people a lot of places like the Paris Catacombs, stuff in the UK, Europe and USA. I definitely know the catacombs off by heart and know my way to 3 missile silos in the USA. Once I have been somewhere I never forget the way back, even though we went to one missile silo in the middle of the night.

PanicUE · 20 Apr 2013, 11:45 am

Here's another Titan site:
http://www.uer.ca/urbanadventure/www.ur ... lorado.htm

Dynamite · 20 Apr 2013, 3:09 pm

Very well documented, that's actually one of the better examples I've seen of a titan site.

blakjak · 31 May 2013, 2:46 pm

Nick wrote:I actually did a stack of research into this, as America didn't advertise itself as having ICBM silios, and so I couldn't rule out the possibility of there being some in Australia.

After spending a day in the state library reading declassified documents.

No dice for Missile Silos.

Woomera has missile 'silos' of sort.. Not for ICBMs, but many missiles were launched there, & still are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woomera_Test_Range

Australia has never had ballistic missiles, so there is no need for hardened silos.
There's an Aussie guy named Alex who bought one in the USA & turned into a super-vilian lair, I'll try find a link.

Handsomefox · 04 Jun 2013, 10:22 am

If you ever holiday over to the USA, take a trip down to Missouri, they have a preserved Minuteman II missile command pod (where the brave young men with the brass keys sat) and I think they have a static display of the actual silo and missile, but I'm not certain.

Unfortunately, as was said, Australia never invested in ballistic weapons we could go looking through, instead we purchased nuclear capable aircraft (F-111) if the need for nuclear armament would arise.

I've heard of some blokes up north in the US going SCUBA diving through abandoned Titan silos and command centres when the place floods up in the rain, and some guys doing tours of really run down Titan facilities (pretty much toppled over under ground, if you can imagine) I wouldn't be that game to do it.
The old NORAD facility was a popular place for UEs apparantly, I'd like to know what they did about that huge blast door, whether they closed it before they left, or if they left it open, and if the UEs ever had to manage to open the damn thing.
Plenty of fallout shelters scatter the US, alot of them sealed up, most used for storage, I read a document a while ago about a school doing the Cold War as a history subject, and they unsealed the one that was built under the school, completely preserved, with rations, lead lined Cans of food (not such a good idea to eat from) the NBC masks and suits still hanging up on the racks, and filing cabinets filled with documents on how to rebuild society and surviving in the nuclear wasteland that would encumber the earth.
I would've killed to have seen a shelter, again, none in Australia, and although I'm glad the nuclear paranoia phase never quite touched Australia the way it did the US, so we dont have civili fallout shelters and the likes, I find the idea of nuclear related urban exploring to be the most fascinating.

blakjak · 04 Jun 2013, 12:45 pm

Glad we didn't waste money on missiles & nukes which were never to be used.
And although the RAAF F111s were the long range C version (able to bomb Jakarta without aerial refueling), they did not have the necessary hard points & targeting computers to launch nuclear weapons.

In Florida, just sitting there in a silo, is the largest & most powerful liquid fuel booster man ever created. Yep, it's just sitting there abandoned. The silo is only flooded down the bottom, many people enter the silo & abseil/climb down by the booster which is 'upside down' so they can measure the thrust. If you're ever in the area, be sure to check it out...
http://www.abandonedfl.com/?p=627

A couple of Cave Clan members have explored & climbed it, makes me jealous big time.

Dynamite · 04 Jun 2013, 12:59 pm

I believe it was featured in that 'Urban explorers - into the darkness' movie actually. Would have liked to see more.

Midget · 04 Jun 2013, 2:42 pm

blakjak wrote:Glad we didn't waste money on missiles & nukes which were never to be used.
And although the RAAF F111s were the long range C version (able to bomb Jakarta without aerial refueling), they did not have the necessary hard points & targeting computers to launch nuclear weapons.

In Florida, just sitting there in a silo, is the largest & most powerful liquid fuel booster man ever created. Yep, it's just sitting there abandoned. The silo is only flooded down the bottom, many people enter the silo & abseil/climb down by the booster which is 'upside down' so they can measure the thrust. If you're ever in the area, be sure to check it out...
http://www.abandonedfl.com/?p=627

A couple of Cave Clan members have explored & climbed it, makes me jealous big time.

Wow, that is amazing. All I can say.

I can't wait until I get a proper job, then go overseas every once in a while.

Titan · 19 Jun 2013, 3:58 pm

Anyone has pics/videos of people going down it ?

Boognish · 19 Jun 2013, 9:35 pm

there was also a missile silo used as massive LSD lab back about 15 years ago until they all got busted..interesting story and a pretty good place to hide a drug lab!

http://www.vice.com/hamiltons-pharmacop ... on-krystle