Missile, Titan I--Cordele, Georgia
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sfwife
N 31° 57.644 W 083° 45.168
17R E 239828 N 3539393
Titan I Missile at site of Confederate Air Force Pad No. I
Waymark Code: WM1WC9
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/19/2007
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The two-stage Titan I, together with the Atlas, comprised our nation's first generation of liquid-fueled, strategic, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Operational Titan I's contained an all-inertial guidance system to direct the nuclear warhead to the target. Liquid propellants for the Titan I's Aerojet rocket engines were kerosene fuel and liquid oxygen. The HGM-25A, formerly known as the SM-68 (or B-68), was the first USAF ICBM to be placed in hardened underground silos for protection against enemy attack. However, they had to be lifted from their silos to the surface by elevator prior to launching.
The USAF launched its first test Titan I on February 6, 1959 and in April 1962, the first Strategic Air Command squadron of nine Titan I's was declared operational. Eventually squadrons of Titan I's were deployed at five different bases in the western U.S. By 1965, however, Titan I's were being phased out in favor of Titan II's which offer greater range and payload, and are launched from within their silos.
This missile is next to the parking lot of a gas station. It is on Confederate Air Force Pad No. I. It was dismantled in California and flown to Warner Robins Air Force Base. Then it was transported along I-75 to Cordele, GA. It was donated to the Cordele Rotary Club by the Federal Government. The Rotary then donated it to Cordele and Crisp County.
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