Re: Bizarre MX launch method (was Re: Photos of Minuteman air launch)

Bill Higgins <higgins@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>> Before the eventual conventional silos, the
>>> basing methods that was further developed were the multiple protective
>>> shelters or "racetrack", and the "dense pack".
>
>The scheme I recall was pre-racetrack, pre-dense-pack, and very much
>pre-rail-garrison.
>
>I think I saw a sequence of small photos in *Time*, possibly in the Carter
>era. They showed a test sequence where the roof of the underground shelter
>was deliberately destroyed, then the launcher was erected.

The destroy-the-shelter scheme was part of the racetrack concept.

D.
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