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Urban-Warrior
28-04-2010, 09:29 PM
Visited with: Toad, Petzl, Sheep, Kempes, Hpipe & Myself

History Borrowed from wiki...

The GAMA (GLCM Alert and Maintenance Area) was built in the southwest corner of the base. GAMA was a maximum security QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) area with 6 large above ground shelters in which fully operational cruise missiles were stored..

Each shelter is around 10 m high, with a reinforced 2 m thick concrete ceiling. Below was a massive titanium plate, 3 m of sand and a reinforced concrete plate equipped with three hydraulic nuclear blast proof doors at both ends to assure a quick entry or exit. They were designed to withstand the blast of an air-bursting nuclear explosion above the base or a direct hit from a 2,500 lb (1,100 kg) conventional bomb.

Each shelter contained 2 LCC Launch Control Centers and 4 TEL transporter erector launchers. Each unit was mobile and supposed to leave the base in convoys to their secret preset dispersal sites. This would happen within minutes after the alert and the movement was via the local roads through the surrounding villages.

On with the pics..


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Urban-Warrior
28-04-2010, 09:30 PM
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Thanks for looking :)

whaddyawant
29-04-2010, 09:12 AM
Wicked photos there fella, love those blast doors and all the hydraulics :thumb

shifty
29-04-2010, 08:37 PM
wheres that caravan...can i get it outta there i need one

TCCI
08-05-2010, 07:17 PM
Looks very interesting great work bud :thumb