Deactivated Minuteman II ICBM Launch Facility (C-6)
USA /
South Dakota /
Cottonwood /
US Route 14
World
/ USA
/ South Dakota
/ Cottonwood
World / United States / South Dakota
military, Minuteman, intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
The former LF for a LGM-30F Minuteman II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Nicknamed "Mundt's Muff" by its crews, C-6 was manned by elements of the 66th Strategic Missile Squadron, 44th Missile Wing, formerly based at Ellsworth AFB outside Rapid City, South Dakota. Though it originally housed an LGM-30A Minuteman I ICBM in 1963, these were replaced with the Minuteman II between 1971 and 1973. It stood at the ready until the Air Force began retiring the LGM-30F from service starting in December of 1991 and wrapping up in April of 1994, in line with international arms-reduction treaties. The vacant Launch Facilities were left to be imploded and filled in.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellsworth_Air_Force_Base
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 43°59'21"N 101°48'56"W
- Echo Flight 9 km
- Preserved Minuteman II ICBM Launch Control Facility (D-1) 17 km
- Sewage Lagoons 17 km
- Minuteman Missile National Historic Site 17 km
- Deactivated Minuteman II ICBM Launch Control Facility (E-1) 28 km
- Deactivated Minuteman II ICBM Launch Facility (B-4) 30 km
- Delta Flight 30 km
- Bravo Flight 55 km
- Big Foot´s Village 104 km
- Cavalry Camp 104 km
- Wanblee, South Dakota 48 km
- Badlands National Park 57 km
- Kyle, South Dakota 69 km
- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation 70 km
- Rockyford, South Dakota 78 km
- Allen, South Dakota 79 km
- Porcupine, South Dakota 90 km
- Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge 99 km
- Manderson-White Horse Creek, South Dakota 101 km
- Wounded Knee, South Dakota 104 km