Retired Missile Silo Homes

[Fly Navy]

Ever seen those retired missile silos that people buy and make into a home? Pretty neat. Strange, but neat.

Yes, I'm watching the History Channel.

 

[Clux4]

I was just watching the same thing on the history channel. Tactical to practical. I wonder how much those things cost.

 

[phrogdriver]

There was a Rolling Stone article about some guy who used one as a meth lab. The DEA was worried since it was an impregnable fortress. I don't remember exactly, but I think they got him when he went to town for that reason.

 

[Punk]

they're pretty cool

clux: they go for around $1.5 million or more

 

[Sabre170]

I saw one on Ebay and if I remember it was less than a million. I want to say $500K.?.?

 

[Punk]

I saw one on Ebay and if I remember it was less than a million. I want to say $500K.?.?

are you sure, I've seen ads for more than $1 mil

they were completely refurbished and all

 

[petescheu]

What's the square footage on that anyways... better be a lot for that much money in the middle of nowhere.
BTW, keep your eyes peeled on Tac-Prac... they did a show on K-Rok, we met the guy in the sim building, he said the show was gonna air about this time.

 

[Sabre170]

The one I saw was not refurbished. The silo was filled in but the other areas were still accessable.

 

[Punk]

http://www.silohome.com

http://www.missilebases.com/

I would love to take a tour of these places

 

[Fly Navy]

http://www.silohome.com

http://www.missilebases.com/

I would love to take a tour of these places

That's unreal man. Talk about giving back to the taxpayers. Gorgeous homes.

 

[Banjo33]

We had this one blow up about a half hour from where I was born AND graduated from high school. The silo is still there, sort of.

The last declassified accident occurred in September 1980
at Damascus, Arkansas, when an Air Force repairman dropped a.
heavy wrench socket, which rolled off the work platform and fell
toward the bottom of a silo. The silo contained a Titan II missile
with a nine'megaton warhead. The socket bounced and struck the
missile, causing a leak from the pressurized fuel tank. About eight
and a half hours after the initial puncture, fuel vapors within the
silo ignited and exploded the liquid fuel. One man was killed;
twenty other people were injured. The nine'megaton hydrogen
bomb was catapulted hundreds of yards away and was found lying in
a field next to a grazing cow. Had this weapon exploded, its effect
would have been approximately 720 times greater than that of the Hiroshima bomb.