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Missile site in North Dakota #2808808
08/14/20 11:06 AM
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S.E. South Dakota !
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Re: Missile site in North Dakota [Re: bigdad] #2808828
08/14/20 12:09 PM
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YES SIR ..... That's what I'm looking for ...... eyes down puke

Re: Missile site in North Dakota [Re: bigdad] #2809287
08/15/20 04:20 PM
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Toss in the missiles & I'll bid!


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Re: Missile site in North Dakota [Re: Sunroofcuda] #2809296
08/15/20 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Sunroofcuda
Toss in the missiles & I'll bid!


With missiles, there is mandatory 100 year waiting period.


Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.
Re: Missile site in North Dakota [Re: jcc] #2809507
08/16/20 03:25 PM
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He was looking to get close to 1/2 a million for it and the high bid was only $52,000? Must be some contaminated crap that would have came with it.

Re: Missile site in North Dakota [Re: mopars4ever] #2809716
08/17/20 11:48 AM
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north of coder
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well, if stuff glows in the dark, and there is enough of it, the light bill might be pretty cheap ! biggrin
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Re: Missile site in North Dakota [Re: moparx] #2809750
08/17/20 01:16 PM
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Unfortunately back in New York
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look at the water damage, no way to rehab that into anything useful.
Decontamination better be part of the deal or no sale. I would bet the water took care of the radionuclides. The solution to pollution is dilution...

Re: Missile site in North Dakota [Re: Nukechargerboy] #2809782
08/17/20 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Nukechargerboy
look at the water damage, no way to rehab that into anything useful.
Decontamination better be part of the deal or no sale. I would bet the water took care of the radionuclides. The solution to pollution is dilution...


Sprint missiles were an early attempt at an ABM system. They were not nukes so shouldn't be any of that kind of stuff laying around. And they were solid-fuel so shouldn't be any of that nasty mono-methyl-hyrazine or nitrogen-tetroxide in the ground either that the Titan system had to deal with. Just the usual diesel/gasoline stuff to worry about and any solvents and oils that they dumped.

Sprint was only operational for about 2 years, so they didn't have as much time to trash the place as some of the others.

By the way, that was a super cool missile for its time. Designed as a last-chance defense to intercept soviet reentry vehicles during their final ballistic stage before impact. It was WICKED fast--accelerating from ZERO TO MACH 10 in less than 5 SECONDS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsnkmpJhzlo


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Re: Missile site in North Dakota [Re: wingman] #2809785
08/17/20 02:34 PM
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from your link
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The missile was armed with a 1 kT W-66 enhanced radiation thermonuclear warhead,


work

Re: Missile site in North Dakota [Re: 6bblgt] #2809807
08/17/20 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by 6bblgt
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The missile was armed with a 1 kT W-66 enhanced radiation thermonuclear warhead,


work


Hm. My bad. I must have been thinking of one of the other short-lived ABMs of that era. I know there was one system that was basically a "rock" that just used kinetic energy to kill the incoming RV.

That was some cutting edge stuff for the day. But obscenely expansive and not very effective...


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Re: Missile site in North Dakota [Re: wingman] #2809823
08/17/20 03:49 PM
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is there any real $ figures in 1970s $Ms as to what that facility actually cost "taxpayers"

Re: Missile site in North Dakota [Re: 6bblgt] #2809825
08/17/20 03:54 PM
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Re: Missile site in North Dakota [Re: wingman] #2809935
08/17/20 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by wingman
It was WICKED fast--accelerating from ZERO TO MACH 10 in less than 5 SECONDS.



I'm too tired to do the math, but that is WAG 50+ G's for 5 seconds? Wow


Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.
Re: Missile site in North Dakota [Re: jcc] #2810021
08/18/20 01:38 AM
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The motor ignited after the missile had been ejected from its silo by gas pressure, and accelerated the Sprint with more than 100G. Within seconds, the missile reached a speed of Mach 10+
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