Missile Silo Sliding Door
The lcd is moved by a ballistic gas generator that uses highly pressurized gas to open the door.
Missile silo sliding door. The lcd rests on three rails and can be pushed to one side of the silo prior to launch or for maintenance. It is a steel plate with a layer of concrete on top of it. Apart from offering its new owner a 6 000 pound blast doors the bunker is also protected. The access hatch for crews to service the missile is still there and the whole site is surrounded by the original eight foot security fence.
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The launcher closure door weighs approximately 110 tons and its design is to protect the minutman missile inside the launch facility from an enemy nuclear blast. Began developing the atlas missile system which placed the missiles in bases throughout the country. They are usually connected physically and or electronically to a missile launch control center. It s a piece of history as the site is one of 18 missile silos built by the american government in tucson.
The silo blast doors are at the bottom of a shaft that leads to the launch control center. The missile silo is leftover from the beginning of the cold war when the u s. It is on rails. For routine maintenance where the silo door needs to be opened for access to the missile the door is cranked slowly along the rails via hydraulic motors to open the 90 ton door.
The structures typically have the missile some distance below ground protected by a large blast door on top. In the event of a launch the door would be blown off the silo by sliding horizontally along rails which are still in place. This is a slightly longer version of the door closing using additional footage shot by david soll from the surface and greg macdonald from inside the silo. Us land based missile silos have a reinforced concrete door that slides over the silo.