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Leopold Kiselev
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Buy Old Missile Silo


Now, a seller is asking $495,000 for a former missile complex in Oracle, which is northeast of Tucson. And a different seller is asking the same price for a silo in Benson, which is southeast of Tucson.




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Last month, he brokered the deal to sell the 13-acre site that once housed a Titan II nuclear missile east of Picacho Peak, near Highway 79 and Panther Butte Road. The listing price was $395,000 and real-estate records show it sold for $420,000.


Enter Survival Condo, a 15-story deep Cold War-era missile silo that has been repurposed as a luxury condo complex. The weapons that once occupied this space were called Atlas missiles, the first missiles capable of crossing continents to deliver an Armageddon-level nuclear warhead. For a few years after their deployment in 1959 they were among the deadliest objects on Earth, but by 1965 the Atlas had become obsolete and the 72 missile sites were decommissioned.


Half the silos were destroyed by the government. The remaining empty silos and the land around them were auctioned off. Farmers often bought them for pennies on the dollar and used the land for grazing.


In 2008, Hall worked with the state of Kansas to find a silo that could be adapted for residential living. After acquiring one such silo in 2010, Hall started the arduous task of pumping out 1.3 million gallons of accumulated rainwater and gutting the silo of rusting launch structures and debris. With the silo emptied, Hall constructed a state-of-the-art underground condo building with a twist. The occupants of this luxury condo building, with redundant power systems, military-grade air filters and a five-year supply of food and water, could survive the apocalypse.


A new owner in early March went from seeing a unit online to purchasing it four days later, sight unseen, Hall said. Sales have been so strong that Hall has almost sold out his second Survival Condo facility located at another undisclosed Atlas silo site in Kansas. At 150,000 square feet, this project will be even larger and can house more people.


The government began installing the Nike-Hercules system nationwide in 1958, when defense planners believed the Soviet Union was capable of sending bombers to the U.S. Instead, the Russians were developing intercontinental ballistic missiles, better known as ICBMs.


And there really was a red phone. The voice on the other end would announce the alert. Then a special safe was opened, and special instruction cards with special codes were revealed to start the launch of the surface-to-air missiles.


If you are looking for a different kind of investment here it is. This 1.6 acre property is the home to a buried missile silo surrounded by open fields. There is currently a well on the property and the electricity is to the property and all fenced. More pictures to come as weather permits.


For a certain class of people, the benefits of living in a missile silo are self-evident, but no one has really gone through the process of documenting all those unanswered questions. How do you buy a missile silo? How do you re-commission it and turn it into livable space? Is it even possible to get a bank to sign onto this? All these questions and more are being answered by a relatively new YouTube channel, [Death Wears Bunny Slippers].


In 2010, the creator of this channel decided to buy a missile silo. He ended up with a Titan II missile silo that was decommissioned in spring of 1986. In its prime, this missile silo held a single Titan II, pointed at a target over the pole, a three-story access tunnel, and a hardened command and control pod capable of keeping a few airmen alive after the apocalypse.


I was under the impression they ran engine tests on the missiles on some kind of schedule, and I bet they just ran raw fuel and retardant out of some scuppers that basically drained into ground all around site.


Not a missile story but a bunker story.A while back the Alberta government was decommissioning their disaster bunker and put it up for sale. The only interested party was a company, who upon researching, was a front for the hells angels.They took it off the market and spent millions digging it out of the ground.


There was one in New York which had a small building above ground with a kitchen and dining area with windows all around. The control center had been given the full treatment to make it into living space. The silo itself was never filled up and was in as-is condition. The property also came with a paved airstrip and was divided into lots facing the strip.


Ed Peden is co-owner of the firm 21st Century Castles, which specializes in this type of real estate. He estimates that there are about 120 so-called "first generation" missile sites still around, all built in the late 1950s and early 1960s.


What a great piece of history! The only remaining Titan II transcontinental ballistic missile. Nuclear warhead has been deactivated, otherwise it looks exactly like it did before. Very informative and interactive tour by Steve and Marsha. Many thanks to the museum staff for keeping the place operational. Would definitely recommend to anyone. Well worth the drive from Phoenix.


You never know where this job is going to take you. Sometimes you spend all day at your desk with a phone at your ear, and sometimes you get to climb down a shaky, 40-foot ladder to explore an old nuclear missile silo for a not-so-typical real estate story.


From the early 1960s until the early 1980s, Tucson was ringed by 18 missile silos, each capable of launching a Titan II missile in as little as 30 minutes and wiping out a target more than 6,000 miles away with a nuclear warhead 600 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.


When the aging Titans were decommissioned in 1984, demolition crews caved in the silos with explosives and back-filled the access shafts for the launch control centers with concrete and other debris, Morris said.


Demotion crews imploded the passageway from the the launch control center to missile silo after the Titan Missile complex was deactivated in the 1980s. The 12-acre plot is for sale along SR 79 about 10 miles north of Oracle Junction, Ariz., on Nov. 8, 2019


Thousands of feet of heavy duty reinforcing bar are tied together to form the backbone for tons of concrete to be poured for missile silo at this Titan Missile site under construction near Tucson in 1961.


Wires remain in Titan II Strategic Missile Site 571-3 in what would have been the tunnel to the missile silo from the blast lock - the central room one entered when entering the site from the access portal. The site is located near I-10 and Empirita Road.


Elite doomsday preppers looking for a fixer-upper might want to consider this 3,200-square-foot Atlas F missile silo. In remarkably good condition for its age, the deserted 18-story underground military installation, built in 1960, is on the market for $3 million.


The 8.3-acre lot in Lewis, New York, holds endless possibilities. Formerly owned by the U.S. military, the property has since been dredged of collected rainwater and cleaned. Replete with privacy, the silo is surrounded by an eight-foot-high barbed wire fence, protected by a military-standard surveillance system (albeit possibly outdated), and features a long driveway that adds to the secluded atmosphere.


Built on 11 acres of land, the silo was specifically home to the decommissioned Atlas F missile, which were deployed from 1961 to 1966. After retirement, the ballistic missiles were refurbished and used for more than 30 years as space launch vehicles.


A decommissioned Atlas F intercontinental ballistic missile silo has gone up for sale in Abilene, Kansas complete with its launch and control room and exterior support buildings. While the site no longer contains a nuclear-armed weapon, it does offer a large amount of square footage and is hardened against nuclear attacks, perfect for a doomsday prepper with deep pockets who wants to ride things out in relative comfort.


The site, known officially as 550th SMS Site 2, was constructed in 1961 and decommissioned on June 25, 1965. The silo complex was listed for sale on a variety of real estate brokerage sites last week, but it's unknown what became of the site in between decommissioning and being listed for sale. According to its listing on Relator.com, the bunker was purchased by a Manhattan-based owner on January 25, 2022, and relisted the next day for the price of $380,000.


The main bunker, which sits some 170 feet below the ground, was designed as the launch control center and living quarters for the former 550th SMS crew stationed there. The control center is connected to a single missile silo by a concrete tunnel.


While the Atlas F ICBM that was once stored at 550th SMS Site 2 is long gone, there appears to be some kind of missile-shaped concrete structure where the missile once stood. There is no mention of the structure in the site's real estate listing.


Site 2 was operated by the 550th Strategic Missile Squadron (SMS) at Schilling Air Force Base. The 550th was established in 1961 to oversee twelve SM-65F Atlas, or Atlas F, intercontinental ballistic missile silos spread out throughout central Kansas. A total of 72 of these Atlas F sites were constructed nationwide, with six strategic missile squadrons established to operate them. 041b061a72


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