Tim Frakes Productions Inc. Tour a Cold War Era Atlas Missile Silo

YOU CANT IMAGINE THE MONEY SPENT BY THE FED GOVERNMENT ON PRINTED CURRENCY.
UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN IN THE SERVICE.
THIS IS WHY WE ARE DEAD BROKE.

I realize this is a very old video, but does anyone know the current situation with this site? The only vids I've found on YT about it, it was half-cleaned out and the silo had about 95' of water in it. Appreciate the virtual tour, btw!

Great video. My grandfather was involved with the Atlas program at the now defunct Schilling AFB. Thanks for sharing!

Where is the place located in texas

Would hate to live underground.

Hiroshima bomb was like a firecracker compared to the yield of this monster 😯

The Atlas did'nt have a 30- Megaton warhead as he says. It was 3,75 Megatons. Also 30 Mt is not three or four times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. It would be three or four THOUSAND times more powerful.

30 Mega ton is not approximately three to four times more destructive. Perhaps it would expand out three to four times the radius, but your math is kind of goofy. Hiroshima was around 22 killotons. Do the math 30,000,000/22,000 = 1,500, yes One Thousand Five hundred times more destructive. That's probably how we got hole's in the OZONE, because government thugs, pushed detonating 20 to 30 megaton nuclear bombs in the upper atmosphere! Van Alan never said it was safe, it just appeared to be necessary to get tests done. Nothing to see here though! Don't get the wrong idea just thinking out loud about the math. I was a special weapons team chief in Germany pointing Nukes at the Fulda Gap 1985-1989, so I am just an amateur, thinking out loud.

We always found that it took three men to make a two man control work. Because when someone had to use a toilet that leaves two to enforce the two man rule.

Dont take my comments wrong. This video is interesting as hell, but ESCAPE TO WHAT?!?!?! ESCAPE HATCH?!?!😂😂😂

30 megatons? I thought the largest warhead was 9 megatons. Hiroshima was just 13 kiloton, according to some books.

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30 megaton ....um no Even the Nukes on the Triton missiles we're only 8 Megaton ... And 8 Megatons Would be like for 500 times greater than Hiroshima bomb.... so 30 megatons Would be thousands of times bigger than the Hiroshima explosion

3 Mt NOT 30Mt. But really, Potato, Potahto either way .....

i keep thinking he is wearing a capsule corp jacket

That's 3 megatons on Atlas, not fucking 30. Titan II is 9 for crying out loud! Get your facts straight.

so... reinforced concrete then? You said it isn't then you defined it. Bravo.

God damn Saul Goodman is branching out.

The fact you can talk about a 1 film for but not that coke machine surprises me

There is an Atlas Missile display at San Diego Air & Space Museum's annex at Gillespie Field, El Cajon,Ca. My kids came home one day full of missile stories.

opens blast door - cola machine

nuka cola intensifies

I’d love to come out and see this! I just got back from Abilene and had driven out to what used to be the entrance to one at Lake Phantom Hill (private property). Let me know, I’ll pay!

Ik guess he meant 30 Kt, not Mt....

Jonathan Frakes

Some basic facts not even close.

I wasn't in the Air Force but in the Navy. The two-man rule is familiar as one of the weapons we used to have to load onto the P-3C Orion was a B57 nuclear depth bomb. The plane would be surrounded by marines, everything exactly by the checklist, no rushing and two man rule in effect the entire time. But what these guys in the Air Force had to do was ridiculous. Much respect & wish I could have gotten to go down in one of those whiel they were active. Once I saw War Games I thought that it was the coolest thing. Thanks for your service!

That's so cool they used surplus Atlas's to boost satalites

Working in a missile silo seems like fun. Just sit around all day and get payed for it.

30 megaton? We never fielded anything that big. Get real. It was a 3.7-4 megaton yield. The biggest warhead we ever put on a missile was the Titan II W53 at 9 megatons.

Seeing the sites built in NY around Plattsburgh, knowing that the ground is bedrock, and what it took to dig these out is absolutely incredible.

cold war debunked

30megatons be way more then 3 times from what it truly was at Hiroshima lol. 30megatons be 30,000kilotons, Hiroshima was 17kilotons js TBH

Very informative.
BUT if that silo was hit what do they escape INTO ...... death ?

If you shoot that drink machine, you'll have to answer to the Coca Cola people. - paraphrased, Col. "Bat" Guano .
The hard packed sand in the escape hatch was the reason I gave up digging. 10 years or so after the Atlas site next door closed I started digging one day. That sand had hardened almost into concrete. Years of snow, rain and temp extremes. I gave up digging down after about 2 feet and 2 broken shovels. I hope they had a shovel down below.
Ellenburg Depot, off the Bull Run Road.

My dad was a power production technician on the Atlas F during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He actually served at this very site in Lawn, Texas.

It's brilliant rabbit hole of missile silos and tge military personnel and protocols that were used along with the use of abandoned or sold by the government all old unused sikos which are turned into negative
Bunkers for
Millions

The Mark 4 reentry vehicle carried a 3.5 Mt warhead not a 30 Mt warhead. Hiroshima was 17 kt. Yield, so no where near “3 to 4 times” more powerful” try 20x!

You tellin me we have no more grpund based nuclear missles? Thats disconcerting

I love secret cold war facilities :)

In Canada we just ran to our out-houses.

The Titan II carried the largest Warhead 9 Megatons

When this is all over you're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola Corporation

The Faraday cage being evidence of this not being a "first strike" weapon doesn't make sense. It can both be a first strike weapon but also built to be a retaliation method as well if the US were hit first. It's not mutually exclusive.

Our basement is very much the same minus the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, so we have absolutely nothing to launch from our basement!

Toob 🙄🙄