Car Man Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I just found this while cruising around on the inter-webs today. looks like a Pete 362 with lots of wheels hauling a trailer with a rocket booster or an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. I also found an article from 2008 stating that a Minuteman III booster transport vehicle tipped over on the gravel access road, dumping the 75,000-pound rocket booster on the ground after the road gave out under the truck. No injuries were suffered but it did take $5.6 million to recover. Scary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1930fordpickup Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Jeremy that is just a weather balloon trailer. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Car Man Posted December 20, 2014 Author Share Posted December 20, 2014 (edited) I am sorry Andy but is not a weather balloon trailer. LOL. It is a Minuteman missile Transporter-Erector. Look it up on google and it will come up with some pretty cool pictures of the rig. It a real beast in my books This was the old transporter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-30_Minuteman Edited December 20, 2014 by Car Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapazleo Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I believe he was being sarcastic but I seem to remember a daycab GMC cracker box pulling a trailer similar to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Anderson Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 This reminds me of the USAF Minuteman railroad launcher I saw at the USAF Museum back in June 2013! The concept was, Minuteman missiles that could be moved around the US at random, in ordinary freight trains, and if called upon, could be launched, without the Soviet Union knowing just where they came from: Art Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilrathy10 Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) Wow...That's a pretty cool setup....Doesn't seem to be the most practical thing, though....Seeing as We have submarines that can move quite a few of them around without a problem.....I would have thought that maybe this was cheaper, but it did cost us $5.6 million to recover the one that just "tipped over"..... Things that make you go, "Hmmmm...." Edited December 21, 2014 by kilrathy10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truck parts Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Thank's for the pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete J. Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Good old cold war! I remember the toy manufactures even got into it. Here is Lionels take on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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