Remote Sprint Launch Site 4 | military, closed / former military

USA / North Dakota / Fairdale /
 military, closed / former military
Remote Sprint Launch Site #4, a remote site of the Safeguard ABM system, housed launch silos for 14 Sprint short-range interceptor missiles; each conical two-stage missile was 27 feet long, accelerated to Mach 10 at 100g, and carried a low-kiloton-range "W66" thermonuclear warhead designed to destroy incoming ICBM warheads at low altitude (within the atmosphere) using neutrons, perhaps only 30 to 60 seconds before they would reach their targets.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)
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Coordinates:   48°28'29"N   98°15'20"W
This article was last modified 13 years ago