Ausmith1 t1_iu79tl8 wrote
The lady working at the Vermont Welcome Center in Alburgh, which is next door to the silo, told me that she remembers them being raised up out of the silo on occasion for drills etc.
Unlike the Minutemen missiles that replaced them, these had liquid fuel that had to be loaded before they could be fired and they could not be fired from inside the silo.
timberwolf0122 t1_iu7llir wrote
These look like atlas F silos. If I recall it took something like 2 hours to get the 75 ton doors open, the rocket lifted out on an elevator then fueled on the surface before the could launch.
The idea was these location could withstand a direct nuclear blast. Inside the missile tube the whole lift assembly and missile were attached to the rock via massive springs to absorb the shock waves from a direct strike, the control room were the men were simmally suspended but on pneumatic air shocks. Ceazy stuff.
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