[ARC5] Surplus Disposal

[Fuqua, Bill L]

Afer Desert Storm the US decided to clean out a bunch of warehouses and replace a good deal of equipment.
Suddenly tons of 4D32, 6146 tubes appeared on the surplus market at reasonable price as well as KWM2A's.
73
Bill wa4lav

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From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Robert  Eleazer [releazer at earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 6:34 PM
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [ARC5] Surplus Disposal

I was told that when they shut down radar stations in the Arctic they would take the equipment to be disposed of, stack it on the ice on a nearby lake and just wait for the spring thaw...

Who would want a bunch of R-390's, anyway?  They are no doubt still there if anyone wants to go diving.

But the all time great one was in the early 1970's when they took at least 25 Atlas ICBMs, and in order to save the horrible storage costs of $3000 a year, ran over them with bulldozers at Norton AFB.

We converted the Atlas missiles that escaped the bulldozer into space boosters and launched them for $15M each for 4 decades thereafter.  But a USAF Colonel decided that with the wonderful new development we had coming the old boosters would not be needed.

The new development was called the Space Shuttle.....

Wayne
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