“I spent a year at the USAF Missile Repair Depot in Newark, Ohio as a tech-rep/engineer for the Minuteman II guidance system.”

If you worked with RVs, particularly with decommissioning them, you should be mindful about thyroid cancer. Also a good book about the Titan-II is:

“Titan II: A History of a Cold War Missile Program” by David K. Stumpf.

I spent a year at the USAF Missile Repair Depot in Newark, Ohio as a tech-rep/engineer for the Minuteman II guidance system. They also handled Atlas and Titan there. As I stated, the actual reliability stats are classified but my general comment on reliability is in the ballpark.

Regards,
Roy

p.s., I also spent a couple of years in the middle east monitoring the Russian missile program.

AD

“Liquid fueled missiles are totally useless for military purposes. With satellite reconnaissance they can easily be destroyed during fueling. The US did deploy the Atlas-F in silos fully fueled but the system was extremely shaky. Actual availability numbers are classified but anecdotaly they were a very expensive bluff.”

After Atlas, the United States deployed a few Titan-I ICBMs that were cryogenic liquid fueled missiles. The Titan-I’s design was converted to the non-cryogenic Titan-II ICBM that was fueled with Aerozine 50 and dinitrogen tetroxide (very nasty and toxic chemicals). Many hundreds of liquid fueled Titan-II ICBMs were deployed in silos. The Titan-II was non-MIRVed and carried the largest warhead of any US ICBM, i.e. W-53. The W-53 had a yield of about 8 megatons. The Titan-II/W-53 (though never used in anger) was a highly effective weapon with terrifying destructive capability. The Soviet SS-18 ICBM was of a similar design to the American Titan-II. The Titan-II became obsolete after development of the solid fueled Minuteman ICBMs and the Polaris/Poseidon/Trident SLBMs.

The Norks are trying to reinvent the Titan-II/SS-18.

- I thought this was by Ogden Nash but I’m getting Anonymous on line. For my money I prefer Nash.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5199611/north-korea-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-fails-miserably

I wonder if the Iranians realize that the North Koreans are not really rocket scientists.

He HATES America, it’s mostly made up of Whites and Non-Muslims, both of whom he HATES with a passion. Just read his book, he’ll tell you in his own words.

About 57% want a military response to North Korea, but Obama would LOVE for North Korea to say, nuke Seattle or Anchorage. Both of which are full of White people.

Obama’s vision for America is to turn it into the vision his father had for Kenya, a debased. “Volk Socialism” run by Blacks for Blacks, basically “Big Man Society” institutionalized by pseudo science and debased Marxism, with racial supremacy overtones. The similarity between him and a certain Austrian Watercolorist cannot be overlooked, though there are big differences. The Watercolorist loved the military, being a combat vet himself, and was ruthless in his application of well, killing people. Obama is strange mixture of “SWPL” Yuppie and Louis Farrakhan. He’d rather make a “West Wing” speech.