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The Titan Missile Museum, also known as Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 or as Titan II ICBM Site 571-7, is a former ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) site located about 40 km (25 mi) [3] south of Tucson, Arizona in the United States. It was constructed in 1963 and deactivated in 1984.
In 1962, the Strategic Air Command's 390th Strategic Missile Wing (390 SMW) and its 18 Titan II ICBM sites around Tucson were activated. The 390 SMW was one of only three Titan II missile wings in SAC and represented the heaviest land-based missile and the largest single warhead ever fielded by U.S. strategic deterrent forces.
Sahuarita contains the Titan Missile Museum, built in 1963 during the height of the Cold War, which is the only Titan Missile site in the world accessible to the public. The actual Titan II missile, the most powerful nuclear missile on standby in the US, remains in the silo for visitors to see.
In the Cold War years, five Titan missile sites were constructed in the area as part of a complex of ballistic missile installations built around Tucson. After the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, farmers against integration forced Black farmers out of Marana into nearby Rillito, Arizona. [8]
Tucson: 2: Agua Caliente Ranch Rural Historic Landscape: Agua Caliente Ranch Rural Historic Landscape: July 9, 2009 : 12325 E. Roger Rd. Tucson: 3: Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 (571-7) Military Reservation
Each silo housed a Titan II missile that was part of the United States defense system. The missiles were equipped with a nuclear warhead that was 600 times more powerful than the bombs dropped at ...
The last Titan II missile, located at Silo 373-8 near Judsonia, Arkansas, was deactivated on 5 May 1987. With their warheads removed, the deactivated missiles were initially placed in storage at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base , Arizona, and the former Norton Air Force Base , California, but were later broken up for salvage by 2009.
The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (309th AMARG), [3] often called The Boneyard, is a United States Air Force aircraft and missile storage and maintenance facility in Tucson, Arizona, located on Davis–Monthan Air Force Base.