Pershing 1a Missile Alert Site
Germany /
Bayern /
Gorisried /
World
/ Germany
/ Bayern
/ Gorisried
World / Germany / Bayern / Schwaben
military, historical layer / disappeared object
Quick Reaction Alert site for West German Luftwaffe missile battalion FKG-1 at Landsberg. One of the battalion's three launch companies was always on permanent alert here. Each long concrete pad hosted a platoon of three missiles. The other two companies at Landsberg barracks would mobilize and deploy to remote forest sites on any threat of war with the Warsaw Pact.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 47°41'35"N 10°27'56"E
- Former Kaufbeuren Air Base 23 km
- Landsberg-Lech Air Base 53 km
- Lechfeld Airbase 63 km
- Laupheim Air Base 73 km
- barrack Graf Stauffenberg 102 km
- Military baraks 116 km
- Former Airbase Neuhausen ob Eck. Now used as festival grounds for the Soutside Fesitval 122 km
- military training area "Heuberg" 125 km
- Neuburg Airbase 126 km
- Dübendorf Airbase 142 km
- Railway crossing 4.3 km
- Railway crossing 6.4 km
- Railway crossing 6.5 km
- Railway crossing 8.2 km
- Road bridge 8.5 km