[ARC5] Surplus Missile Disposal

[Tim]

I am pretty sure some surplus rocket motors (Zuni's for example, maybe
others) are used to power rocket sleds at Sandia and Holloman.

Tim
N6CC

On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 2:35 PM scottjohnson1 <scottjohnson1 at cox.net> wrote:

> Missiles are dimantled at Camp Navajo in Arizona, propellansts are stored
> and destroyed, along with conventional warheads. There may be other
> disposal centers as well.  Nuclear warheads go elsewhere for disposal.  I
> don't  think any missiles are ever sold intact.
> If you ate lucky, you might get a nearly intact gyro, or maybe a fuselage
> section.
>
> Scott W7SVJ
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> From: MARK DORNEY via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: 3/10/24 07:56 (GMT-07:00)
> To: releazer at earthlink.net
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> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Surplus Missile Disposal
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> Nike Zeus, Nike Hercules and Nike Ajax are systems that came onboard in
> the 1950s-1960s.  They are obsolete. But those surplus Missile sales need
> to be VERY closely monitored. What happens if folks sympathetic to Iran get
> a hold this stuff?  It’s old, but with a little TLC, this stuff would still
> work.  I don’t like the idea of long range missile parts being sold to
> civilian industry.  Too much can go very wrong, very fast.
>
> Mark D.
>
> “In matters of style, float with the current. In matters of Principle,
> stand like a rock. “.   -   Thomas Jefferson
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> On Mar 10, 2024, at 10:27 AM, releazer at earthlink.net wrote:
>
> Relative to missile disposal I was told that they were shutting down the
> Nike sites and farmer in Mass. bought one of the circular drum type missile
> storage containers as surplus.  The containers are similar to those used
> for jet engines storage and transportation and are popular with farmers as
> feed bins.  He got the thing home and then called the Air Force to say,
> "There is a gol danged missile in this thing!"
>
> Much the same thing occurred at Tinker AFB when a rancher bought a jet
> engine cannister at a surplus auction, got it home, and found there was jet
> engine in it.
>
> As a result of the Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984 the DoD was
> required to offer surplus missiles to commercial industry.  Numerous Nike
> and Talos missile motors were converted for experimental sounding rocket
> use and the CSLA eventually meant that NASA could no longer do that work
> themselves but had to hire private contractors to do so.
>
> Wayne
> WB5WSV
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