The shocking state of the US Air Force missile bases

As the RIA News", American TV journalist Leslie Stahl was shocked by the state of the US Warren missile base in Cheyen, Wyoming. According to her, the technical equipment and infrastructure of the central control station are in poor condition, they have not been updated for fifty years.

“Employees who are responsible for one of the most deadly combat weapons in the world are forced to talk to each other on telephones that cannot be heard and work on old computers that still use floppy disks,” said Stahl. The journalist noted that the officers who are responsible for the launch of Minton-3 intercontinental ballistic missiles equipped with nuclear warheads are outraged by the poor state of telephone lines.

According to them, it is almost impossible to hear what the person on the other end of the line is saying. Sometimes, access to the international network does not work, which makes it extremely difficult to carry out service.

It is worth noting that the underground control centers of the US Air Force missile base were built back in 1960. The leadership of the Air Force promised to modernize the rocket mines and control centers, but no serious steps were taken in this direction. For example, the massive door that protects the corridor that leads to the control center has not been working for several years.

The new commander of the missile forces, Major General Jack Weinstein, shared his opinion on outdated equipment. According to him, outdated computers protect the database from hacker attacks, since they do not have the ability to connect to the Internet. Weinstein also noted that in the next few years, the US Air Force will nevertheless conduct technical modernization.

This is not the first case of close attention of the public and the media to the American bases of rocket forces. In January of this year in the United States began a scandal around the cases of drug use and fraud during the passage of tests for professional suitability by Air Force officers who are responsible for land-based nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Comments

[Gagarin]

Wait, you’ll upgrade everything there, maybe soon you will have to cut to scrap.

[Validator]

A campaign in the American army can only cut the budget. Money is spent there unmeasured, where do they go?

[ZU-23]

But on Hollywood films they shoved the whole world over that there was a lot of how seriously and advanced everything was.

[dimdimich71]

About Hollywood films: - I noticed this tendency - before the Americans saved the world with blacks and now they are trying with the Chinese, why would it?

[b0bi]

They just relied on non-nuclear weapons. Now nuclear weapons are needed for a retaliatory strike, but they know that no one will attack them first, they always attack. Therefore, they need more aircraft, rockets, etc. - that would offend the little ones.

[wolfhunter2035]

especially in terminator 3 it is shown)))

[Siberian19]

Well, then how many show-offs this world hegemon has! Let's hope that the former!

[Vita_vko]

The entire US economy is built on corruption and money laundering. Just look at the shares of corporations that finance election campaigns in America. Whose candidate won, those shares immediately grow, this is aerobatics in international corruption! And if they do not hesitate to rob the whole world, then why should they abide by the rules within their country? That is why it is necessary to stop the practice of training lawyers and economists abroad. For young people who have been trained in the United States and Great Britain, the value system is changing. In most cases, they simply are not able to create anything, it is rot that penetrates the state, destroying it from the inside.

[Alexander Romanov]

and work on old computers
On such or something

[Sid.74]

Something some kind of harmful little article, underestimate the potential enemy is not necessary, and do not overestimate!

[ShturmKGB]

Decaying capitalism ...

[Lelek]

You can do it easier and more profitably - lease bases to Russia for 10 years. We’ll clean up and protect America from attack from Guinea-Papua. And let the American warriors do their favorite thing.

[major071]

When the budget is spent on wiretapping
Wishing the globe to bend under the USA
Then there is not enough money for "serious" toys
As a result, no missiles, no bases, shorter than x ...

[Lord of the Sith]

It’s understandable with the bases, although they don’t often need to be modernized, but even if the situation is with the bases, what can we say about missiles that are 30-40 years old?

Years of operation
1970-present time
Main technical characteristics:
Range: 13000 km
Charge power: 1 × 300 ct on 2013

By the way, the warheads were replaced there already from Mk.12A to Mk.21.

[xenod55]

The launcher operators cannot hear each other, but they are very well heard by the other operators. For example: "Wan, and Wan, tweak the minuteman line, otherwise I could hardly hear something."

[Hariva]

Something even somehow is not believed. Can the eyes blur?
The situation is just very conducive to throwing misinformation.

[Jurkovs]

After the USSR collapsed, the United States ceased to conduct R&D in many key areas. What for? After all, there is no USSR. And to intimidate the natives made drones.

[Andrey Yuryevich]

Quote: Jurkovs

After the USSR collapsed, the United States ceased to conduct R&D in many key areas. What for? After all, there is no USSR. And to intimidate the natives made drones.

and the X-47 and stuff, fiction ...

[Sergh]

News is fresh

Well, Barak has something to conjure, let's see it more dear to him, Ukraine or his own continent with Russians and Chinese under his belly:

Russia and China “bury” the Panama Canal

Nicaraguan President Daniel ORTEGA has agreed with the leadership of Russia and China on the construction in his country of a canal connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans

The waterway will compete with the US-controlled Panama Canal and strip Washington of its strategic and economic monopoly in Central America.

Construction will begin in the fall, and the first ship will pass through the canal in 2019. The preliminary cost of the project is $ 45 billion. Depth will be 27,6 m, width - 83 m, length - 286 km. Vessels with a displacement of up to 270 thousand tons will be able to go along the canal in Nicaragua, while the Panama Canal, even after expansion, will be able to pass ships in half the tonnage. The project also includes the construction of a railway, two airports and an oil pipeline.

The main financial burden is undertaken by China. Russia will provide military cover for the project. To stop US attempts to disrupt plans to create a channel, Russia concluded an agreement with Nicaragua.
Ortega allowed Russian warships and aircraft to visit the country during the first half of 2014 and patrol the territorial waters of Nicaragua in the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean until 30 on June 2015. The issue of deploying our military base in Nicaragua is also being considered.

Keep in mind!
Nicaragua was among 11 countries that supported the position of the Russian Federation when voting at the UN on the referendum in Crimea.

[podpolkovnik]

"The news is fresh

Well, Barak has something to conjure, let's see it more dear to him, Ukraine or his own continent with Russians and Chinese under his belly:

Russia and China will "bury" the Panama Canal "

To me, too, "fresh", even on April 22, laid out, minus you, my friend ...
http://topwar.ru/44822-pochemu-grazhdanskaya-voyna-na-ukraine-privedet-k-krahu-p

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[from punk]

Quote: Hariva

Something even somehow is not believed. Can the eyes blur?

I am the daughter of an officer from the Warren base. Believe it is not so simple with us

[spech]

I am the daughter of an officer from the Warren base. Tell us not everything is so simple laughing

ATP neighing!

[podpolkovnik]

Quote: punk

Quote: Hariva

Something even somehow is not believed. Can the eyes blur?

I am the daughter of an officer from the Warren base. Believe it is not so simple with us

[SS68SS]

They do not have the money to keep a really dangerous weapon, for that is, 5 billion to fuel a civil war in Ukraine. This is the essence of liberalism. "Let it be bad for me, then others are also not good." Inhuman ideology.

[strannik595]

In January of this year, a scandal began in the United States over cases of drug use and fraud during the testing of professional fitness by the Air Force officers who are responsible for ground-based nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles.

mdyayayaya ......... horror, comrades are getting better, horror is getting fun .......... and with these people we have to continue to live on the same planet, popandos

[Baikal]

And here, by the way, an interesting question: when the US collapses, what will happen to nuclear weapons?
Now neighing is understandable, but after all, it’s not really a joke.

[strannik595]

when the US collapses, what will happen to nuclear weapons

they will sell it to Iran ........... but seriously, I think it’s premature to ask such questions, although .... the situation in the world is moving in a very bad direction, it may well be that our partners will finally take the cap off from depression, anger and drugs and then ....... hello to my grandmother, we have mushroom rains here in the fall

[Canep]

The fish rots from the head, the government is inadequate idiots who cannot keep a secret that the nuclear shield (sword) was covered with moss (rusted).

[mirag2]

Launch mines at them are abandoned not from lack of money or bureaucracy and sloppiness -
they are abandoned, because the US does not plan to use them - "Aegis" will prevent the launch of our missiles, and they will strike from boats.
They have such a vision, and in their opinion, mines are not needed.
And our "Satans" in the mines, so they wanted to cut it (the mine mouth), ours and they are already unnecessary for them.
Dogs!

[igor_m_p]

Well, the "voivode" (aka "satan") is very problematic to intercept at any part of the trajectory. So the hope for all sorts of "aegis" is rather illusory. I was a little confused by something else, as far as I remember, now they have not "Minutemen" on alert, but "MX". And the "minutemans", about which the article says - something like a reserve and are not on alert duty. Perhaps for this reason such a mess.

[Canep]

Quote: mirag2

Aegis will prevent the launch of our missiles

Yeah, will prevent, everyone saw how she ("Aegis") went off on the destroyer "Donald Cook", the wrong stench still stands in the cockpits, and before that, the "Chanslorville" was pierced by a target rocket.

[Moore]

Well, not quite right. A massive nuclear missile attack involves defeating an adversary of nuclear weapons that are on different carriers with different flight times and different accuracy and power. Terrestrial missiles, for example, more precisely, sea missiles upon their attachment to the starting point ..
As for the state of Amer’s silos and their protection, everything was always amazing there. Somehow, in the 80s, it seems that the pacifists drove the compressor to the silos and started kicking the head with chippers .... That is: they arrived, turned around, climbed over some symbolic fence and worked thoughtfully for some time until they unscrewed some kind of mobile patrol.
Well, so with them, what can you do ...

[tormazok]

“Employees in charge of one of the deadliest military equipment in the world are forced to talk to each other on phones in which nothing is heard ....

And when the phone breaks down use the signal fire system ...

[Andrey Yuryevich]

Quote: tormazok

And when the phone breaks down use the signal fire system ...

Well, then the Indians in the army they have!

[podpolkovnik]

Quote: tormazok

“Employees in charge of one of the deadliest military equipment in the world are forced to talk to each other on phones in which nothing is heard ....

And when the phone breaks down use the signal fire system ...

You can rehearse the flags!

[Rostovchanin]

Pi.ndosnya after the victory in the Cold War completely relaxed.

"VICTORY" in quotation marks was ... they were given to think that they had won!

[Wiruz]

Video in the topic. I advise you to look

[razved]

Good movie. I liked it. There is only one BUT ... DO NOT overestimate the enemy.

[desant_doktor]

Maybe we generally fear mattresses? Maybe they have such garbage going on everywhere? It’s just not clear where such a gigantic military budget is being sawn ...

[Gagarin]

What is America, old computers, poor communications ... it’s even scary to imagine what would happen to nuclear weapons in Ukraine now, had it not been abandoned after independence.
A series of books by S.T.A.L.K.E.R. would be a complete reality.

[mamont5]

Quote: Gagarin

... it’s even scary to imagine what would happen to nuclear weapons in Ukraine now, had it not been abandoned after independence.
A series of books by S.T.A.L.K.E.R. would be a complete reality.

Yes, that would be true. After all, there has recently been an article about this, I do not remember, maybe here too. Atomic charges cannot lie like firewood in a barn. They need care and maintenance, which costs a lot of money. If Russia, in due time, had not taken out these charges, the end of the world would already have come to Ukraine.
But Ukraine, apparently, is impatient and longs for "the continuation of the banquet." Ukraine's announcement of the refusal from Russian fuel for its nuclear power plants and the transition to American fuel is a new opportunity for the "Chernobyl disaster." Ukraine has few problems, they want more, but there have already been precedents.

[Alexander Romanov]

Quote: Gagarin

it’s even scary to imagine what would happen to nuclear weapons in Ukraine now, had it not been abandoned after independence.

There would be no tribute to him, they would have sold it for a long time, to someone and that’s all.

[podpolkovnik]

Quote: Alexander Romanov

Quote: Gagarin

it’s even scary to imagine what would happen to nuclear weapons in Ukraine now, had it not been abandoned after independence.

There would be no tribute to him, they would have sold it for a long time, to someone and that’s all.

Nevermind! A yulka would have fired right and left from the Kaklyak atomic rifle!

[Mhpv]

Putin and Obama agree on nuclear disarmament.
All warheads were blown up in space. A week later, a call to the Kremlin:
- Hello Vova, I still have 7 missiles left, so Russia is now a US colony ...
Well, Putin is thinking, scratching his turnips. Suddenly the Minister of Defense runs into the office "Vladimir Vladimirovich, trouble! Near Saratov, a drunken lieutenant forgot to disarm an entire base, about 40 Topol! What to do ?!
Putin:
- Well, firstly, not a lieutenant, but a lieutenant general, and secondly, when Russia drinks, it is invincible!

[mig31]

As if they had no shit, we can’t relax .....

[Green]

That would have exploded there, it is necessary to help ...)))

[Hariva]

Well, and how do you differ from the creature Tymoshenko?

[from punk]

Quote: Hariva

That would have exploded there, it is necessary to help ...)))

Quote: Hariva

Well, how do you differ from the creature-Tymoshenko?

indeed. if it explodes it is still a tragedy. whatever hatred would be

[Manager]

Quote: Zelen

That would have exploded there, it is necessary to help ...)))

What have civilians to do with it? Ordinary Americans, by the way, are very friendly.

[alicante11]

And who will kill us if that? Obama, or friendly ordinary "mattresses"? Who in Abu Ghraib mocked the Iraqis and urinated on the killed Afghans? Obama, or "ordinary mattress covers"?

[shinobi]

So, it seems, the mattress mattresses were completely abandoned from the mine components, so it was decided that they still had to decommission them. The entire strike potential of the nuclear weapons they have now is submarines. The main idea of ​​the strategies is the difficulty of finding launch and deployment points compared to mines, which means that a larger percentage of warheads will reach the target.

[Professor]

run on older computers where floppy disks are still used

The flight program of the last American Shuttles was loaded from old floppy disks and took up this sea of ​​time. The reason is trivial - do not touch what works reliably.

[Hariva]

Any mechanism that does not need adjustment and adjustment is usually not amenable to either one or the other.
Folk wisdom)))

[Sergey Sitnikov]

ours are constantly firing rockets in Kamchatka, from here even I can conclude that at least rockets fly and get where they need to, but something I have never heard about the launch of an English or French or American rocket))) are they all rusted ?? And mind you, they always broadcast that our troops are becoming obsolete and that’s why I don’t understand - their troops have a longer shelf life or what ??? For 15 years, as I had not heard, an English submarine with missiles on board was lowered from a slipway, when was the last time the British blew up a nuclear device ???? Maybe they have already forgotten how to master warheads?

[Energy]

In 1996, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty was signed, and countries that have ratified the Treaty have pledged not to resume nuclear weapons testing.

The CCCP carried out the last (underground) nuclear test in 1990. And Great Britain in 1991.
Now only the DPRK does not hesitate to conduct tests - it disavowed the agreement on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in 2006.

[podpolkovnik]

Quote: Sergey Sitnikov

ours are constantly firing rockets in Kamchatka, from here even I can conclude that at least rockets fly and get where they need to, but something I have never heard about the launch of an English or French or American rocket))) are they all rusted ?? And mind you, they always broadcast that our troops are becoming obsolete and that’s why I don’t understand - their troops have a longer shelf life or what ??? For 15 years, as I had not heard, an English submarine with missiles on board was lowered from a slipway, when was the last time the British blew up a nuclear device ???? Maybe they have already forgotten how to master warheads?

Not a damn thing!
They’re just afraid that when they start, their navels will be torn! And they take care of their strength, it will suddenly be needed. Therefore, heavily lean on hamburgers with Coke!

[clidon]

The rockets they fly regularly. Just do not talk about it ORT and on the front pages of the Internet as it is not particularly spread. Who are we interested in?
So in September last year, American SSBNs made 4 launches of Trident-2 missiles at once, which became, respectively, 145,146,147 and 148th successful test (in a row, without a single accident) of this SLBM. Last December, the Minuteman-3 ICBM also flew successfully. The missiles, although not fresh, are still quite valid. Moreover, Minitemen underwent modernization in the early 2000s with the replacement of rocket engines, and the Tridents are going to change to an improved version of the Trident D4LE in 5 years.
And for a long time, none of the signatories of the moratorium on their bombings have been testing nuclear warheads. And the British, including us.

[jagdpanzer]

Pinstein

so it explains everything!

[Sun 162]

This is not the first article of such a plan, everything is bad in the USA .....
If so, it cannot but rejoice, just do not underestimate the "partners".

[Chifka]

You don’t have anything safe! No Internet - the enemy will not intercept. I can not hear on the phone - and the enemy will not understand anything. The covers of the shafts do not open - it will not soak in the rain and will not rust. The rockets had only a pedal drive left - that’s why they don’t care about electronic warfare .... The Americans have everything thought out for the campaign, it’s not for nothing that the Hohland takes an example from them as they are in armament

[Giant thought]

As it turned out, not everything is smooth in the Danish kingdom.

[Orc-xnumx]

Not everything is all right in "Kingdom of India 3.14"!

[rasputin17]

They are interesting people !! They teach the whole world, or rather try to teach, while they themselves snout into the gun !! A penny broken by their studies is not worth it and learn from them like that even more so !!

[Bezarius]

> According to him, outdated computers protect the database from hacker attacks, since they have no way to connect to the Internet

: Facepalm:

[Azzi]

According to them, it is almost impossible to hear what the person on the other end of the line is saying. Sometimes, access to the international network does not work, which makes it extremely difficult to carry out service.

From the missile base there is no access to the international network :))) smiled, really the problem is with people))

[domjoly]

Yes, I also thought, why do they need access to international communications?

[andr327]

Yes, the article is shocking, and the first question is nuclear safety and unauthorized access. Let the minutemans crumble, but there should be control over the warheads. The Americans carried out some kind of modernization of the missiles, but I don’t remember something in the strategic nuclear weapons control system over the past 35 years. it may be reliable with them, but .... If so, then it is necessary to send our specialists with a technical revision with a check of those conditions and compliance with measures to prevent unauthorized launches. THIS IS REALLY SCARY!

[konvalval]

Well then. The weaker the US, the stronger we are.

[_Lexa_]

Do not underestimate the enemy! I think that with us everything is not so smooth. The news of the modernization of technical equipment and infrastructure of the central control center of the missile base of the US Air Force would not please many people around the world.

[bulvas]

Someone from the US military-industrial complex saw a new opportunity for cutting the budget ...

Now ours can start checking and demand money

[Sars]

Why is Obama clinging to his missile defense, and does he suggest Putin to reduce nuclear weapons?
All experts say that Americans are bluffing - all warheads, delivery vehicles - weight models (everything is old, and production is ruined).

[clidon]

"All the experts" is where these are found?

[kind]

Sometimes, access to the international network does not work, which makes it extremely difficult to serve.

And with whom are they talking during combat duty in other countries? Or are there migrant workers from Tajikistan sitting at the consoles ?! !!

[kelevra]

There’s nothing to be surprised at! The USA climbed everywhere, into all countries and into all the problems, and conflicts in the world, but did not think about themselves, because they have the confidence in their heads that they are not on the island! Well, plus for the Americans huge external debt, no matter how much the Fed prints money, debt will kill the US sooner or later!

[Kornilovets]

Well, everything is predicted about, the war in Afghanistan, Iraq, allies, assistance to democracies, a cut, super new expensive toys .... That’s the result ... there isn’t enough strength and the situation is like a snowball ... Yankees are exhausted, Bluffs Obama !!!

[Minsk]

I am more and more convinced that Obama is a Russian spy.

[Blondy]

The first rule of the system administrator: works - do not touch. And no hacker can crack a floppy disk in a safe.
So, in terms of reliability, they will give odds to any modern bells and whistles. Just specific warriors once again wanted to participate in the cut of the military budget, which has recently been slightly reduced.

[Not served]

While still a student, I read an article that we "threw" the Stealth technology to them knowing in advance how to "see" such objects.
And the answer to these questions is terribly simple, if in the 60s there were still signs of democracy, then over the years democracy has more and more become the screen of the oligarchy. And all over the world they are building not democracy, but an oligarchy. Therefore, the Khodorkovsky are supported. And Ukraine completely fits into this convoy, and what they spent in Russia in the 90s. It’s not clear how Putin was watched, apparently already rested on their laurels and relaxed.

[AlNikolaich]

To be honest, the article is about nothing. The real state of the American armed forces we will not know. Hardly a leak. Rather, the information is thrown that they say everything is bad in America. In fact, of course, it is already clear that things in the US armed forces are far from ideal. But how seriously, only military intelligence knows, and she does not publish her data in newspapers ...

[EvilLion]

According to him, outdated computers protect the base from hacker attacks, since they do not have the ability to connect to the Internet.

And he did not hear about the physical disconnection of critical computer computers from any networks?

[sv68]

the next article will be-the shocking state of the white house, the ceilings have not been bleached for thirty years, the floor cleaners are not sweeping as they should in the dust layer on the flight of stairs the third deputy drowned for any business, money is needed for repairs and ukroina does not and if it’s serious, it’s like a fairy tale construction for little kids

[dzau]

Quote: AlNikolaich

To be honest, the article is about nothing. The real state of the American armed forces we will not know. Hardly a leak. Rather, the information is thrown that they say everything is bad in America. In fact, of course, it is already clear that things in the US armed forces are far from ideal. But how seriously, only military intelligence knows, and she does not publish her data in newspapers ...

Everything is simpler: journalists inflated for the sake of sensation. "50-year-old trash with floppy disks", on which the emphasis, will survive this journalist. Iron was designed by sc. just with a certain margin of safety. If they do not remove it, it means that the resource did not come out on critical nodes. Not broken - don't fix it.

[leo44]

Haha. Even if everything is so bad with them, then everything is fine with us! And about their "damaged phones" - the main thing is not to be like in a joke:

Two submarines emerge: Russian and American. American captain welcome:
Hello, rushen!
-What did he say?
-It seems: badly painted.
-That is a bastard! Attention, torpedo attack!

[Free Island]

however, it is sad and dangerous when drug addicts with a BAD TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION hold a hand on the missile button in the USA!)))