Completion of silo’s at Fort Greely at risk
Interceptor shield Report
Nathan J Hunt
September 14, 2009
Currently funding for the completion of the second ground based Interceptor silo’s site for field two at Fort Greely Alaska is at risk, with limited funding from the pentagon completion of field two is at risk of being delayed or stopped, the pentagon has stated to stop now and restart work at a later date will cost two times or more to finish then if construction were to be finished now. As it stands Fort Greely has three missile fields, with field three completed with 20 silos for the ground based interceptor and field two is under construction, field one is complete but is of an older design and currently has six silos’ online.
Why is completion of field two important?
It is important because currently online missiles at Fort Greely are distributed between field one and three, field one is of an older design and maintenance to keep field one online and operational costs twice as two separate individual fields of the new design cost to keep online and operational.
If field two is completed all online and operational missiles can be deployed between field two and three allowing field one to be brought offline and be primarily used when needed for operational testing and functionality of the system as was intended for field one when it was first built, this would be a cost saving not only for missile defense but for the American public. Second with completion of silo field two at a later date if the administration decided to increase deployed grounded based interceptors from the current stated amount of 30 interceptors and increase them to 40 or more ground based interceptors the silo’s at field two would be ready and in place for the increase.
