My friend Jim took my old boss Vance and I out to the Air Museum at Malmstrom AFB, MT. Â Here is some of what we saw.
This is one of the radar consoles Jim sat at watching the skies.
Why a train at an Air Force Museum?
In 1960 they considered basing some of the Minuteman ICBMs on rails to make it harder for the Soviets to hit them.
The trials were successful but they decided ground-based missile silos were a better (and cheaper!) idea. Â They looked to revive this idea in the late 1970s or early 1980s but it was too expensive and interfered with civilian rail transportation too much. Â As I recall the Soviets also studied this but it never went into full production.
~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>
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