Two radar towers remain on private property owned by a landscaping company. Most buildings remain, appears some of the magazine as well. The radar and control facility was located on the west side of Forest Way Drive two blocks north of Tower Road. Partially intact, buildings, some radar towers, tourist area, Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Above-ground Nike-Hercules pads within protective berms. to defend this nuclear industrial complex. Residential housing plan. No evidence of IFC. Many were already on Army National Guard bases who continued to use the property. Parts of the facility exist but are abandoned, lot of vegetation reclaiming the facility. Some military buildings in use, new buildings erected over magazine. Formally used as an ESDA facility for the Village. The sites were using mixed warheads; meaning always 2 sections nuclear-capable (W31 selectable 20 or 2 kiloton yield) and 1 section only conventional (T-45 High Explosive) armed.[5]. RIANG/USAFR Center, some old buildings in use. The markers are color-coded by flights. Private owner, construction use. FDS. Partially Intact, City of Detroit, River Rouge Park. Private ownership. The AADCP was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site M-89 / Z-89. Doors probably welded shut. Upgraded to above-ground Nike-Hercules and re-designated HM-03. Private ownership, 4 military buildings still exist, usage unknown. Magazine site is still very recognizable, with the surface concrete pad / blast deflectors and raised areas surrounding the former elevator doors still in place. The AAFC was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site P-71 / Z-71. Hilltop Elementary School, no remains. The site was initially an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center. Site redeveloped as Bedford Middle School in 2001. Buildings in good condition and in use. USAR Center Magazine area remains, concrete badly deteriorated.BR>. Mostly sold off. Illinois. In private hands, appears in good shape. It was designed for manual operations, using plexiglass plotting boards and telephonic inputs. The park currently owns three Ajax missiles and one Hercules. Remains an Army Reserve facility. FDS. Part of Allegheny County Police and Fire Training Academy. Abandoned. The AADCP inactivated on 1 Sep 1974. The site's housing and administrative complex was sold to a private owner and is currently being used as a residence. Until recently, Nike Missile Base C-84 near the Chicago suburb of Barrington, Illinois, served as an archival repository for Lake County; the records were stored in one of the three underground missile storage areas. ICBM Missile Silos - Newsthink Forty-five years after it was shuttered, a former Cold War missile base is set to be auctioned to the highest bidder in Hecker, Illinois. Site used as vehicle storage for county vehicles, and other public services. Built to oppose Soviet air attack, this complex and those in Great Falls and Lorton were three of thirteen Nike sites that surrounded Washington and Baltimore. They could reach speeds of over 1,600 miles per hour thats more than two times the speed of sound and could climb up to 70,000 feet. Redeveloped into high-end single-family housing. A new structure adjacent to "A" Section houses offices formerly used by the Baltimore County Fire Department Rescue Academy but now houses the Baltimore County Department of Public Works Safety Office and Training Academy. It was formerly under private ownership, used as an Airsoft gaming facility, most notably by the Minnesota Airsoft Association. Magazines visible, some snow plows being stored on them. Fairfax County ownership, maintenance yard. FDS. Municipal complex storage yard. #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left;width:100%;font-weight:normal;}, Beyond Chicago from the Air with Geoffrey Baer, The Great Chicago Fire: A Chicago Stories Special. Missile Bases, Communication Bunkers, & Underground Properties Buildings appear in excellent condition.381723N 0895651W / 38.28972N 89.94750W / 38.28972; -89.94750 (SL-40-CS), 381611N 0895700W / 38.26972N 89.95000W / 38.26972; -89.95000 (SL-40-LS). Magazine launch doors removed; site appears to be filled in, with vegetation covering fill sites. Magazines appear to be once under asphalted-over parking lot, however, access to one lift platform is now covered with dirt and the magazine is filled with water. Each squadron has five Missile Alert Facilities which each control ten silo's for a total of 50 silo's per squadron. Abandoned and overgrown with trees. United States Minuteman Missile Wings - 272KB PDF Never completed. But the Ajax could only travel about 25 miles, which military leaders felt was not far enough to be an effective air defense. Launch structures completely removed except for some fences and a road and other infrastructure built for the missile site, Bainbridge Island Metropolitan Parks and Recreations District. Two Integrated Fire Control (IFC) sites service the launch site, which contained twice the normal number of batteries. Site equipped with the AN/GSG-5(V) BIRDIE solid-state computer system. She has visited half of the states, as well as parts of Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and regularly travels home to the Hoosier State to see friends and family. Leveled and cleared; redeveloped into Patriots Park along 187th Street. Abandoned and overgrown site at the south end of lake/state recreation area. This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) SL-47DC was established at Belleville AFS, IL in 1959 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. 9 absolutely incredible abandoned bunkers for sale - MSN Others were offered to state and local governments, while others were sold to school districts. A missile may have a MIRVed warhead, containing three W78 350-kiloton warheads, to attack three targets. Now County highway maintenance storage facility. Launch area was immediately north of current school building. Maps. Now under private ownership, Explosives Technology. Intact, LA County Fire Camp #9 and GTE cellular relay station. Nothing left. FDS. A section of the launch area is used by the CAANG, 261st Combat Communication Squadron. DOD communications facility. Bay doors and elevators still work and are still in use by owners. The site was inactivated on 8 Sep 1968. It is home to a MNDOT radio tower. The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | MISSILE SILOS - UNL It was part of the Nike-Belt, a defense system which was created to defend Europe against the then newly invented jets. Some buildings remain in use, most razed along with radar towers. LC buildings along Staley road still in use. [16], 413622N 0724129W / 41.60611N 72.69139W / 41.60611; -72.69139 (HA-48-CS). There are two adjacent ski recreation areas. Most public. No evidence of IFC site. They are cement-block shells. Were intercontinental ballistic missiles ever housed or siloed at Montrose Harbor? magazine paved over for school bus parking and as an outdoor education center, Redeveloped into Cuyahoga Community College, Western Campus, Now City of Cleveland J L Stamps District Service Center, Part of Runway L6 Cleveland Lakefront Airport, Baseball Field, Part of Cleveland Tri-City Park, Tennis Courts, Part of Cleveland Tri-City Park, Private ownership. Launch "pits" used for reservoirs for the waste treatment plant. Magazine area appears to be an auto junkyard, although intact, appears to be a large garage, auto dismantling building erected over the magazine. No structures appear to remain. FDS. FDS. FDS. If so, are any of the silo structures still there? The areas in black denote deactivated missile wings, the areas in red denote the active missile . Some ruins are visible along the west boundary, including the crushed fuelling stand and parts of the acid storage sheds.384850N 0772121W / 38.81389N 77.35583W / 38.81389; -77.35583 (W-74-LS). Obliterated, City of Rancho Palos Verdes, Del Cerro Park. Used for herding rams and storage. FDS. FDS. Obliterated. Fort Monroe, HQ Training and Doctrine Command, Buildings in good shape, magazines covered with earth. Buildings standing, magazines visible with launch doors visible. Intact, NPS-GGNRA, Angel Island State Park. Above ground site with launchers protected by berms. A monument to the site stands near the entrance to the recreation area. Largely intact, Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Department, Bossier Parish SWAT field training site. Site is actively being restored by volunteers of Maryland Wing, Civil Air Patrol. The MAF Some old roads still exist in the abandoned part of the facility, but no evidence of radar towers. Maps - Minuteman Missile National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Abandoned, Pere Marquette State Park, kits if debris on the launchers, site used as a storage yard. Where's The Bunker? Part of the IFC has been redeveloped into unorganized sports facility. Buildings still standing. Magazines visible, status unknown. Today, Nike Missile Base SL-40 near Hecker, Illinois, is the Beck Vocational Center; its buildings preserved through adaptive reuse. Even the signs listing the bunker's rules can be read decades later. Abandoned area, weeds, no remains of launchers. Now obliterated, Park, ownership by Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Obliterated, new office building construction, in highly urban area. Posted by: BruceS. PI-70DC was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site RP-62 / Z-62. Figure7shows a missile silo site from the road. On mountain peak, leveled flat for the base. Site obliterated, little evidence of IFC, overgrown. Redeveloped into single-family housing. It was assigned to the United States Property and Fiscal Officer, State of Rhode Island for real property jurisdiction and control. Inactivated by 1974. No evidence of IFC site. Buildings have been razed but foundations remain; double-Nike-Ajax magazines badly cracked with wild vegetation overgrowing. Obliterated, overgrown. Mostly intact. FDS. Buildings Demolished Sept 2015 Magazines are there and part of a municipal maintenance facility. Their defending area was the industrial Ruhr area. Obliterated, High-end single-family housing, no evidence of IFC. FDS. Also storage yard. Mostly redeveloped, magazine area in poor condition, used as storage yard and parking lot. Above ground magazines protected by berms. View waymark gallery. Appears to be largely intact underneath vegetation overgrowth; old access road entrance at Ave J & 133 Street largely obliterated. Radars used at Fire Island were CPS-6B, FPS-8, CPS-4, FPS-20A, FPS-6B. Mostly vacant land in the middle of forested area. Concrete slabs and some wooden curb stops remain, but all buildings have been removed. L-85's housing area was taken over by the Air Force after the IFC was closed by the Army, and was redesignated as Loring Family Housing Annex #3.