Titan II Missile System / Titan 2 Silo
The Titan II ICBM program was developed by the US military to increase the size, strength, and speed of the nation's weapons arsenal in the 1950s and 60s. Each missile carried a single warhead, the largest in the US inventory, used liquid fuels, and was stored and launched from underground silos. They were deployed in Arkansas, Kansas, and Arizona. They were in service for over twenty years.
I toured the Titan Missile Museum, the only Titan II silo still intact, a few years ago, and began a pursuit to learn everything I could about the Titan Missile system. The information here is only a small portion of the data I've collected since then.
General Information
Titan 2 program Summary
Here's the development history of the Titan II
The start sequence for the Titan II missile can be found here.
This is how the silo complex was layed out.
And here is a description of the site configuration.
The Activation/deactivation timeline can be found here.
Some images and info on the Launch Control Center (LLC) is here.
Missile Specifications
Chronology of development, deployment and retirement.
Other
Facilities The missile construction and launch facilities, mostly post Titan II
Here are a few photos of an abandoned Titan II Site
Titan 1950's to Today
The Final Launch of a Titan 2.
Here are some books on the Titan II
Links to other Titan II web sites.
Here is a section on the Titan I, and the early development of the Titan Missile.
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Titan Accidents
There were several accidents involving the Titan II. The story of the accident that occured at
complex 373-4 Searcy AR on August 9th 1965 is here.
Newspaper interviews man that survived this silo fire. And here is a newspaper article about the accident.
On August 24th 1978 an accident occurred at complex 533-7 near Rock Kansas, 2 men were killed. Here is that story.
On September 19, 1980 an accident occurred at complex 374-7 near Damascus Arkansas.
Info on the accident can be found here and an
article about it here.
Another accident occured at this complex on
October 8th 1976.
Titan Missile Locations
Missile Silo Coordinates for all Titan II locations
Information on the Titan IIs history at Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona is located
here. General information on Davis-Monthan AFB
is located here.
Information on the Titan IIs history at Little Rock AFB in Arkansas is located
here. General information on Little Rock AFB
is located here.
Information on the Titan IIs history at McConnell AFB in Kansas is located
here. General information on McConnell AFB
is located here.
Here's some info on the decommissioning of
the Titan 2 launch pad at Vandenberg.
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