Are you kidding? If we are using 5.25 floppies at our nuclear facilities, the Russians are still on magnetic tape reels.
I take nothing from SeeBS without thinking of what agenda is behind it.
0’ has been dismantling nukes... unilaterally, firing officers, cutbacks, etc. Something is up here, like sowing the seed for the remainder of collapsing the US nuke deterrence. He needs to get this done within the next 2.5 years...
Gee a 25 megaton warhead based on 1950’s techology can still leave a pretty big hole in the ground.
I remember just before the Anthrax hit, they did a big show about Ft. Detrick.
It begs the question...where the heck does the Air Force still get those 8” floppy disks?
The technology in the silos is stable and been proven over 50 years. Why change it?
Thank God they use old technology. with all of the vulnerabilities of modern day software the last thing we need is to hook these silos up to the internet or some other thing that you just know someone is pushing for just by the very existence of this report
The ignorance of this opening statement is astounding. You would think that rudimentary reporting would get at least some things right.
The 60 minutes hit piece was recorded at a Minuteman Launch Control Center (LCC), a manned capsule miles from the nearest Launch Facility (LF).
The actual missiles are located at ten remote LFs in each flight assigned to an LCC. No one in the business would ever refer to a LF as a silo. That term died in the 60's with the second generation of ICBMs like the Atlas and Titan I.
If the story can't even get that straight how can there be any credibility elsewhere? There is no news in this story only whatever alarmist crap cbs wants to feed a gullible American public.
With a floppy disk system, hard for others to stick a USB stick in to copy data or inject a virus!
The two big focuses in our nuclear silos are communication and preventing mishap. All of these things have a lot of redundancy and fail safe, and not much reason to screw with what works. As long as the silos are still capable of getting the launch signal and not launching on accident the system is working perfectly.
The Russians still use vacuum tubes in much of their electronics. Their favorite “control computer” is a PDP-11 knock-off.
Does the button still work?
That’s really all we need right? We need the engine to start.
No comment, other than that piece is a pretty good piece of commie/fascist bait.