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Minuteman missile communications

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Fifty Minuteman IIIs of the 341st are currently held in an inactive "reserve" state, out of service but ready for future emplacement, a notable situation given the strict limits Cold War treaties place on stockpiled ICBMs. The hardened HF receive antenna assembly actually included six 160' monopoles: one was extended for normal use, but in the event of nuclear attack, the five others were stored telescoped in a silo about 30' deep and could be deployed by a small explosive charge. This bus would be tens of miles long with multiple branches, a challenging electrical situation that perhaps explains why the Air Force has repeatedly found it to be infeasible to make HICS faster.

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