Titan II ICBM, Launch Complex 571-7, Sahuarita, AZ, 2009.
All the pixels, but with less radioactive fallout, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4185185541
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Captured with a DSLR and a Zeiss 21mm Distagon lens. Handheld (there was no room to set up a tripod).
In 2009, I was fortunate to join a “top to bottom” tour of former Air Force Titan ICBM site 571-7, now preserved as a museum. Titan II missiles carried a nine megaton(!) “physics package” in the “reentry vehicle” (which they emphatically assured me had been removed from this missile, but I still wouldn’t advise upsetting them too much).
More ICBM photos and discussion here: https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/titans/
@mattblaze@federate.social Yes one of the scariest museums I have ever been in when you look up the silo. On the other hand, Star Trek: First Contact filmed there so I have “Magic Carpet Ride” stuck in my head at the same time.
Great perspective (both figuratively and literally).
@mattblaze@federate.social Very cool, I am envious. I grew up around ICBM fields, drove past the high-security installations on a regular basis, but never had the opportunity to go inside and see a silo, much less one with a missile inside.
