Atlas F Launch Site, U. S. Air Force, 578th Strategic Missile Squadron, Dyess S-8, Texas, Taylor County
The photograph is the silo footprint of Atlas F Launch Site Dyess S-8 near Winter, Texas. The U. S. Air Force deployed Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) from 1959 to 1965. The 578th Strategic Missile Squadron based at Dyess Air Force Base operated twelve Atlas F launch sites starting in 1962, The Atlas F, the most advanced of the Atlas series, was designed to be stored in underground "silo" sites about 180-feet deep and 52-feet in diameter. Within the silo the missile and its support system were supported by a steel framework called the crib, which hung from the walls of the silo on four sets of huge springs. During the firing sequence, the missile would be fueled, lifted by an elevator to the mouth of the silo, then fired. They could strike deep into the Soviet Union, The site was built to withstand a nuclear blast (Source: Various)
the 578th Strategic Missile Squadron was deactivated on March 25, 1965. Launch Site Dyess S-8 was decommissioned an demilitarized. The silo footprint is the only structure remaining at the former Atlas F Missile Site S-8 near Winters, Texas.
Atlas F Launch Site, U. S. Air Force, 578th Strategic Missile Squadron, Dyess S-8, Texas, Taylor County
The photograph is the silo footprint of Atlas F Launch Site Dyess S-8 near Winter, Texas. The U. S. Air Force deployed Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) from 1959 to 1965. The 578th Strategic Missile Squadron based at Dyess Air Force Base operated twelve Atlas F launch sites starting in 1962, The Atlas F, the most advanced of the Atlas series, was designed to be stored in underground "silo" sites about 180-feet deep and 52-feet in diameter. Within the silo the missile and its support system were supported by a steel framework called the crib, which hung from the walls of the silo on four sets of huge springs. During the firing sequence, the missile would be fueled, lifted by an elevator to the mouth of the silo, then fired. They could strike deep into the Soviet Union, The site was built to withstand a nuclear blast (Source: Various)
the 578th Strategic Missile Squadron was deactivated on March 25, 1965. Launch Site Dyess S-8 was decommissioned an demilitarized. The silo footprint is the only structure remaining at the former Atlas F Missile Site S-8 near Winters, Texas.