What happens to a missile silo after a launch?

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@carlsavage614 11 ай бұрын

Its hilarious that someone actually thinks we would ever live to reload those silos should we ever have to launch.

@mikesmith-wk7vy 11 ай бұрын

That’s probably why ours are hot launches that can’t really be reloaded .

@johnallen7807 11 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly lol

@cocoanutpomeranian7987 10 ай бұрын

Even after a full exchange there could be a handful of silos that escaped damage. Pretty sure the topside logistics required to reload a minuteman missile would be unavailable. In addition the launch crew would probably bug out too.

@Wilson82668 10 ай бұрын

Last year a real news outlet had a headline that read "Would A Smale Scale Nuclear War Be Good For Climate Change" That's when I realized all the rational people have left the room😔 I have a wild idea how about we stop being such Assholes to everyone then maybe we wouldn't have to worry about using the phucking things

@blipco5 10 ай бұрын

@@acbulgin2I live in a target. I just hope I get enough warning to light up a good cigar and enjoy a glass of nice whiskey.

@georgescherer1791 10 ай бұрын

At noon time I usually prefer a hot launch as opposed to a cold launch

@AldoSchmedack 17 күн бұрын

Cold soup is baaaaad! 😂

@kevinbryer2425 11 ай бұрын

Depends on whether the opposition fires back.

@Southwest_923WR 10 ай бұрын

Are you daft??? Why wouldnt they? One launces, the target launce back. What are you smoking? STOP IT!😅

@montanausa329 10 ай бұрын

Would be nice to see pictures of the inside of the silos from both types to see the damage

@ragtowne 10 ай бұрын

For those that havent, read the book "On Thermonuclear war" by Herman Kahn - its somewhat dated but still relevant even today - he posited the idea of a "winnable" nuclear exchange which influenced Stanley Kubrick's movie Dr. Strangelove - included are estimates of casualties and lasting effects of an all out nuclear war - he wrote "Will the survivors envy the dead?"

@Honda559 10 ай бұрын

Yes they will, so very very much.

@karstendoerr5378 10 ай бұрын

Here one thing is forgotten when making the distinction: during a hot launch it can destroy the entire silo in case of a malfunction of the rocket launch (explosion of the rocket in the silo if the rocket should not take off). In a cold launch it would explode outside, as it is ejected without its own propulsion. A cold launch is therefore also an extra security feature.

@dansantos1659 10 ай бұрын

I remember Michael McFaul who was part of Obama era US team who negotiated the New Start Treaty stated that the "Reload Potential" was considered a major concern by the Americans. The Russian were upgrading the 15P084 silos which originally housed the "Hot Launched" UR-100 to the "Cold Launched" RS-24 Yars and the 15P714 which housed the R-36 heavy ICBMs are being prepared for the new Sarmat ICBM. The Americans see these reloadable missile silos as problems as they further complicate US nuclear targeting, it would force the Americans to still target and destroy these silos as these silos are still a threat. Plus Russia has a large fleet of road mobile ICBMs which can be reloadable.

@M21-w1y 10 ай бұрын

Russian “ cold launch” it pops up out of the silo and immediately falls straight back down destroying the silo😂😂😂😂😂

@dansantos1659 10 ай бұрын

@@M21-w1y Of course, be it Russian, American or Chinese these weapons systems are made by man, and in a number of occassion do experience malfunctions. That is why these systems are tested.

@tomnguyen9931 10 ай бұрын

And we bought into their LIES!!! The only thing Russia have are cheap AK-47s and RPG-7s. The rest are just CRAPS!!! Their Generals know war with the West is the end of Russia so, they goes about telling us they have trillions Nuke and it fly the speed of light and have trillion miles range!!! Everything have shelf life except LIES!!!

@dannygjk 10 ай бұрын

I assume you meant new salt treaty.

@dansantos1659 10 ай бұрын

@@dannygjk Yes, McFaul was part of the US negotiating team when the New Start Treaty was still being negotiated upon.

@perryallan3524 10 ай бұрын

While the Minuteman missile silos are designed to be repairable. I expect it would take at least 6 months assuming you had all the parts and supplies on hand (and more likely 9-12 months). Basically, all platforms, equipment, and wiring has to be replaced. I'm sure the concrete silo would also be cleaned and repainted prior to installation of the new platforms and equipment. I'm not sure if there is a provision for short control and power cables that are connected to an external to the silo buried vault to prevent you from having to run new cables for miles back to the control center.

@PWingert1966 9 ай бұрын

Maybe that is the crews post-launch activity?

@alexandermarvin9536 8 ай бұрын

The MMIII silos used at Vandenburg SFB are used for unarmed test launches only. So I imagine they are repaired every time. The main silos used for MMIII, probably not something you'd worry about repairing after a nuclear war.

@lateshiftsailor 10 ай бұрын

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

@philjohnson4367 10 ай бұрын

Are you sure?

@ronoconnor8971 9 ай бұрын

Mmmmm….hmmmmm

@bigpappahemi4263 9 ай бұрын

That is the most brilliant gobbeldy gook I have ever read!

@bobjoatmon1993 10 ай бұрын

I read a paper that the Russians probably would not try to strike our solos after the first exchange because their fighting goals are differed. We primarily target the opponents weapons systems and try to minimize civilians casualties. The Soviet Union fell and we got to read quite a lot of their military thinking and they target a lot of industrial capability INSIDE URBAN AREAS in our cities. Since the Russia Federation is thought to have basically the same military stratigy as the old USSR a lot of our silos would be left but the chaos and distruction would probably end up in them not being reloaded. Its more certain that the Russians or Chinese (or N Korean or Iranian) would use enhanced EMP weapons above the atmosphere bracketing the contental US and take down the electric grid, so no gasoline pumped out of underground tanks crippling transportation, no refrigeration of food or medicine and the roads clogged with dead cars so getting military equipment around would be very difficult (like transporting the reload missile from storage to the silo anyway)

@M21-w1y 10 ай бұрын

First of all those rusted out Russian delivery vehicles would fail to launch😂😂😂

@bobjoatmon1993 10 ай бұрын

@@M21-w1y well, that's the problem isn't it? Do you plan that only a few nuclear weapons reach you (being optimistic) because the delivey missiles fail on or during launch or do you prepare for the worst and hope for the best? This has a great effect on your defense preparedness and costs so it's an important question. We've seen that a lot of Russian military equipment is crap, do you feel lucky that their nuclear weapons are too?

@joyceleadbetter2600 10 ай бұрын

Don't believe Russia is still targeting our NE industrial cities, rust belt is no longer a viable target. New targets will be our food production areas, silicone valley, military bases. Fly over country and sun belt cities, MAGA country, are the new targets.

@PhilbyFavourites 10 ай бұрын

@@bobjoatmon1993you forgot to add “punk” to the lucky question….

@dentalnovember 9 ай бұрын

You can’t hug the world with nuclear arms.

@alexandermarvin9536 8 ай бұрын

MMIII ICBMs are regularly launched (for the test launches they aren't nuclear armed) from Vandenburg SFB's silos for testing, several times a year. So probably do repairs for those silos.

@commandosolo_193 10 ай бұрын

well my cousin sat in a silo for 12 years. he didn't say much about what happens but I asked what happens at the end. he said once the birds are away the last page said... if you are reading this, start a timer. if it reaches 1 hour, you're alive and start praying when you start the timer. He knew once everything was done, it was just a matter of time. 60ft or 200ft down doesn't matter to a nuke.

@brax2364 10 ай бұрын

@x6ftundx. As a former MMII/CDB ICBM Missile Combat Crew Commander I call BS on that. There is no last page telling crew members to set a timer. The hardened Launch Control Center (LCC) and Launch Control Equipment Building (LCEB) are set up to provide power and the capsule (aka LCC) has food and water for the crew. There is also an escape tunnel filled with sand that can be utilized in the event the topside building is gone and debris blocks the elevator. That being said, most of us on crew knew that we would need to complete our launch checklists and turn keys before incoming missiles took us out. By the way, if anyone mentions pushing buttons to launch ICBMs you know right away they are full of crap. That’s not how it works.

@Javelina_Poppers 10 ай бұрын

@@brax2364My hat's off to you guys, as a first sergeant of a unit inside Cheyenne Mountain during the cold war, I worked closely with a lot of former launch crews who proudly sported their "pocket rocket" insignia.

@brax2364 10 ай бұрын

@@Javelina_Poppers Thanks. I survived 4 years of Crew duty back when SAC was in charge - was on alert when we got that actual EAM that told us to get the cookies and insert keys. Pucker factor. Survived 5 StandEvals with 5 HQs, Unit (Wing) Instructor, Olympic Arena primary competitor, & 4315th CCTS IQT instructor. I left crew after 4 years and just grateful my USAF career was still on track and I still had both ass cheeks still in place.

@brax2364 10 ай бұрын

@Javelina. Since you were at the Mountain, did you ever get these? “SKYBIRD, SKYBIRD This is the SAC Airborne Command Post with a test of Primary Alerting System Backdoor Circuitry……. 8th Air Force OVER…. 15th Air Force OVER…. Acknowledge Now!……… Ouuuuut…..”

@tomstamford6837 10 ай бұрын

@@brax2364 Loved your reply. Gotta say, if someone says, "They didn't say much about it," probably because they didn't actually do it and don't want to be called out for their BS. Might have spent 12 years in their mom's basement and played 'pew pew' games on their Nintendo or PlayStation. 🤣

@chrismiller5940 9 ай бұрын

One major reason the cold launch system was developed was the SALT II treaty stopped new silo construction and existing silos could only be enlarged by a certain % so later, larger missiles didn't have the space to safely do a hot launch (Article IV section 4

@noelht1 11 ай бұрын

Imagine the poor bugger who has to clean it.

@AudieHolland 3 ай бұрын

Wearing a full radiation suit, assuming most his friends and family are already dead, knowing that even the missile launch crew only have rations to last about two weeks underground.

@AudieHolland 3 ай бұрын

I always thought, and I read about it during the part of the Cold War that I lived through (1980s) that 'cold launches' were quicker to get the missile into the air. Hot launches took a bit more time and before the missile appeared above ground, hot exhaust fumes would give a tell tale indication for any enemy forces who might be watching. Perhaps the inventors of the 'cold launch' were thinking of quick response laser systems that could detect and target an ICBM upon launch by the few more seconds it took before the missile would really launch.

@georgegreen4798 10 ай бұрын

Seriously? Does anybody really think that the two survivors of a nuclear exchange would be wasting their time thinking about reloading missile silos?

@PWingert1966 9 ай бұрын

It would give the missile crews something to do while the dust settles. But I bet round two would be a doosey!

@iknow4913 10 ай бұрын

That is a fantastic point.

@Jerry74 9 ай бұрын

Subs do "Cold Launch" so the rockets don't damage the submarine.

@BeyondExplained 9 ай бұрын

👍

@davidgriffiths7696 10 ай бұрын

It’s curtains either way.

@andyvan5692 10 ай бұрын

one point he forgets, as these are Nuclear missle sites, They would be the first targets of a "retaliatary" strike, aka the "mutual" in the MAD principle, as the hot exhaust of the launch, whatever the system, would provide the targetting signature for the retaliatry missles' guidence and targetting systems!!- like a snipers' muzzle flash, so giving away their own position!

@alexandermarvin9536 8 ай бұрын

Actually, the positions of the silos are already known by each side, because they can be seen from spy satellites.

@philippmetzger1126 10 ай бұрын

What happens to a missile silo after a launch? There is no missile in it.

@johntheclyde2816 10 ай бұрын

Nice theoretical discussion. In reality, once the radiation subsides, the vacant silos will become homes for cockroaches and mutant rats.

@kpkndusa 9 ай бұрын

Wouldn't matter, silos are targeted too.

@Paul-v8u2h 7 ай бұрын

The sheer power of these things is nothing short of amazing. That's just propulsion system imagine the business end of the minuteman Missile (ICBM) aka physics package. Nuclear devastation.😱☠️💥☢️

@sailinghome2708 10 ай бұрын

On the American side they are specifically designed to destroy the silo on launch bad enough to destroy any and all classified components.

@davidfoster8172 9 ай бұрын

actually, very interesting

@PWingert1966 9 ай бұрын

I was wondering if the launch system wishes the crew to have a nice day after the launch!

@kleverich 10 ай бұрын

Reusable? Other that for testing new missiles, there's not going to be much need for re-use once the missile are flying.

@PWingert1966 9 ай бұрын

If it was a launch of only that fight it would be reasonable to assume a reload request would be generated to the Pentagon and a task group assigned. The real question is where do you keep minute man missiles that are not in the silo? I assume that they are stored and disassembled somewhere and that you don't run on a build-to-order basis.

@js-wq6zy 10 ай бұрын

They turn on the news and learn everyone they have know heve been burned to a cinder....then they receive the order informing that the lauch orders were issued in error....

@KManXPressTheU 9 ай бұрын

Usually, The Silos become Targets whether They launch Their Weapons or not.

@alexeistukov-ued5970 9 ай бұрын

..therefore.. all submarine launch missiles are cold launch..??

@silopedia 11 ай бұрын

Good video!

@pschroeter1 9 ай бұрын

The Day After Airman: [missiles from both sides are still en route] You know what that means, don't you? Either we fired first and they're going to try to hit what's left, or they fired first and we just got our missiles out of the ground in time. Either way, we're going to get hit. Airman Billy McCoy: So what are we still standing around here for? Sergeant: Where do you want to go? Airman Billy McCoy: Well, how about out of here for starters? I've got to get my wife and my kid! Sergeant: We're still on alert, Billy! No one leaves this facility. Not until the choppers get here to take us back to Whiteman and to the shelters... Airman Billy McCoy: [cutting him off] Are you kidding me, man? The bombs will be here before the choppers will! Listen to me. Airman: Damn! Airman Billy McCoy: Listen to me, man. The war is over! It's over. We've done our job. So what are you still guarding? Huh? Some cotton-pickin' hole in the ground all dressed up and nowhere to go? Airman: He's right! Airman Tommy: What about Starr and Boyle? Sergeant: What about them? Airman Tommy: What are they doing? Airman Billy McCoy: Yeah, they're 60 feet down, sipping on some cold beer and whistling "Misty"! Airman Tommy: I'm going down there! Sergeant: You can't go down there! That elevator is secure! Airman Billy McCoy: Do you hear yourself talking, bozo? 'Cause I hear you saying that we've got direct orders to be sitting ducks!

@dewdewism 10 ай бұрын

What happens to missile silo after lauch? If it's launch during war, i dont think it'll matter to reload it.😅

@tomstamford6837 10 ай бұрын

So, is Patrick Star's house really a missile silo?

@frankcessna7345 10 ай бұрын

Russia has long utilized cold launch’s in preparation of a protracted strike or counter strike mission when the missions(s) and government policy demse the use of ICBMs or ABMs are limited use or punitive strike….!

@digitpmedia 11 ай бұрын

if you want more defense contracts, then make more maintenance and repairing job.. single use on everything, is preferred.

@paaat001 11 ай бұрын

News to me. I spent 9 years in the USAF doing iCBM maintenance. Not a contractor in sight. Those launch facilities are all primary first strike targets too. No need to think about reusing them unless you want to make light bulbs out of the rubble. They would glow for hundreds of years.

@alexh3974 10 ай бұрын

Short of the vety rare test's...yeah if we fire these. The woeld is over.

@354sd 11 ай бұрын

What a bizarre film

@deralbtraumritter8573 4 ай бұрын

0:59 “…What happens after a “lawunch”…” lol I thought this guy selected the French accent annoying Ai Voice for a second there…

@dirkdickler5581 11 ай бұрын

The musik ruins the video......

@jorgel4415 11 ай бұрын

I didn't find it disturbing... I found it soothing

@davidfalconer8913 10 ай бұрын

After launch , the site is abandoned and various homeless folk move in and ( PARTY - PARTY - PARTY , like it's 1959 ( ? ) ... this is actually feasable , there are numerous abandoned sites in the US ! ......... DAVE™🛑

@Zukiwi1 10 ай бұрын

You wait 5 more minutes before the other sides ICBM hits your launch position and renovates the launch silo for you...

@bobpourri9647 10 ай бұрын

It lights a cigarette....

@Aiwendill Ай бұрын

I dont think anythink. I just push the button...

@jeroexx 10 ай бұрын

But how does the rocket know where it is and where it needs to go?

@sulfo4229 10 ай бұрын

It uses inertial navigation systems - accelerometers that integrate all axis of accelerations to find their current speed vector. The systems are very sophisticated today, however in its very basic form the rocket does not even need to know where it is during launch, just a trajectory that it needs to maintain to reach its target.