AN/GRW-5 Titan 1 Antenna System
We pushed aside a blast door and looked down towards an antenna silo – fully intact and carrying a pristine and authentic Titan 1 radome antenna, complete with a canvas inflatable sphere. This was what the writer of “Titan 1 Epitaph,” whom I’ve interviewed in the past , calls “a very complex system indeed… a radio-inertial missile guidance and tracking package representing, at the time, some of the very latest in technology and miniaturization in solid state electronics.” It was the full system designed by Bell Laboratories and a priceless relic that played a pivotal role in American history. The Western Electric Missile Guidance system (known as an AN/GRW-5 by technocrats) was so important that Titan bases contained two of them for redundancy – one of which could not be raised above-ground unless the other was lowered below-ground.
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9 comments
amy heiden wrote...
I love the colors in this. This turned out so well! Beautiful job T-Bug!
Geo wrote...
killer view!
Adam wrote...
Great view Jonathan! The photography is superb.
Matt Whitted wrote...
Amazing, defunct but fully intact and apparently unaffected by years of non-use.
Mr Magoo ICU wrote...
Great work, getting in and taking an awesome shot.
Alan Grinberg wrote...
You have photographed so well some amazing things!
And the info certainly adds a lot to the photo.
David Semon wrote...
so cool!
Alvaro Munoz-Aycuens Mtnz. wrote...
Well done!! Very cool shoot.
Wow!