Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site t4test.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!intelca!t4test!murray From: murray@t4test.UUCP (Murray Lane) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Hart scares me to death!! - (nf) Message-ID: <389@t4test.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Mar-84 20:20:51 EST Article-I.D.: t4test.389 Posted: Wed Mar 14 20:20:51 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 01:03:58 EST References: <6049@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca. Lines: 21 > The Minuteman missiles are supposedly in better shape, although I > expect that a solid-fuel rocket loses some reliability after 20 years. > > Scott Renner > {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!renner I have a friend who used to work at Vandenburg Air Force Base where the ICBM's are tested. According to him, only about 50% will make it out of the silos, because of maintanence problems. The missle crews that service the missles are frequently doped up to the point they cannot think straight. There is no way they can do a good PM on the missles in that condition. More often, it is bitterly cold where the missles are, and the missle crews would much rather be in their nice warm barracks. In there rush to get out of the cold, they do a slip-shod job. A note to the Soviets that are supposedly on the net... The remaining 50% would get out (short of getting nuked first), and once they leave the silos, they don't have problems very often. They would reach there targets. Murray at Intel @ t4test