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The US has invested R$186 billion in an impenetrable military construction: a concrete and steel shield with 20.000 antennas capable of intercepting intercontinental missiles

Written by Valdemar Medeiros
Published 31/12/2024 ร s 11:21
US invests R$186 billion in impenetrable military construction - a concrete and steel shield with 20.000 antennas capable of intercepting intercontinental missiles
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Cold War US military construction is a concrete and steel shield designed to withstand nuclear attacks. Discover the secret project that received billions of dollars in investment!

A US military construction has been erected in the middle of a remote field. It is a futuristic pyramid, a secret military construction that cost investments of 30 billion dollars, the equivalent of about R$186 billion at the current exchange rate, and which, during the Cold War, was intended to be the US's concrete shield against Soviet missiles. Although little known, this concrete and steel shield in north dakota not only encapsulates the nuclear paranoia of the time, but also bears witness to an era where the arms race dictated the fate of countries.

The US's Secret Military Buildup

During the Cold War, both the United States and Soviet militaries made huge investments in infrastructure that today seem overblown. Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex (SRMSC) is a relic of that era, representing a heavy US investment in a secret military buildup. 

The purpose of the US concrete shield was protect the country from Soviet intercontinental missiles. Despite never intercepting any missiles, the existence of this US military construct may have served as a powerful deterrent against Soviet attacks. Alternatively, it could also be seen as a colossal failure.

The investment in the concrete and steel shield is made up of several constructions, with the pyramid being the centerpiece. In addition to its imposing size, the pyramid hides a complex underground network of corridors and rooms, including offices, the central computer and the complex's power source. In addition, there was a vast field of missile silos.

Secret military construction had powerful radar to identify missiles

Built with concrete, iron and steel, the US military construction was designed to withstand nuclear and electromagnetic attacks. Construction began in the late 60s, a initial investment of 6.000 billion dollars, which today is equivalent to approximately 33.970 million.

Radar was the most crucial feature of the US concrete shield. On the four faces of the pyramid (MSR), phased array radars could focus in multiple directions quickly, without moving antennas. This US technology represented the pinnacle of American innovation and was intended to detect missiles at long range.

Equipped with 20 antenna elements and controlled by a central computer built by IBM, Bell System and Lockheed, the MSR, together with the PAR system, could find Soviet intercontinental missiles and discriminate between warheads and other objects, providing intercept trajectories and launching defensive missiles.

End of the concrete and steel shield 

Beneath the secret military building, there were many rooms, including offices, computer rooms, and armories. In addition, there was fuel storage, a heat sink, and a power plant that powered the entire complex.

The U.S. concrete shield also included a community center, officers' quarters, a mess hall, a chapel, a gymnasium and recreational facilities. The country's investment was intended to direct multiple missiles at once in the event of multiple attacks.

Despite the huge investment, the secret military build-up operated for only six months. On April 1, 1975, it reached initial operational capability (IOC), and on October 1 of the same year, it reached full capacity with 100 operational missiles. However, on October 2, 1975, Congress voted to deactivate the system. Even though it operated at a simulated 99,5% efficiency, the US military build-up was deactivated one day after reaching full capacity.

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Railson Barbosa de Araujo
Railson Barbosa de Araujo
31/12/2024 14:00

What if it's God? It's no use.

Zeferino de Oliveira
Zeferino de Oliveira
In reply to  Railson Barbosa de Araujo
31/12/2024 15:59

God will not kill anyone!!! We kill ourselves!!! Stop and think for a moment about the work of God!!!! Do you think that a being of this magnitude would give himself the luxury, or waste, of killing a human being **** like us! But when we distance ourselves from the creator we become susceptible to everything bad! This is our punishment because of our own fault!!! Sorry for the long text!!!!, but there is still a lot to do!!!! Except for a God mixing with humans and dirtying his hands with the blood that He created!!! It is not even possible for God to take revenge for anything!!! He has no time, he is, was and will be Eternal.

Mark
Mark
In reply to  Zeferino de Oliveira
01/01/2025 01:22

How much ****!!! lol

Leandro Laureano
Leandro Laureano
In reply to  Zeferino de Oliveira
01/01/2025 05:07

Magnificent.

Carlos Carriel
Carlos Carriel
In reply to  Zeferino de Oliveira
01/01/2025 09:48

Congratulations! When I say that God does not kill, because He is life, people ignore it! God allowed the death of His Son to give us life!

Sousa
Sousa
In reply to  Carlos Carriel
01/01/2025 11:36

You are ignorant, forgive me. It is God who gives life and he who takes it away.

Paulo
Paulo
In reply to  Zeferino de Oliveira
01/01/2025 11:26

Say this to the people who drowned in the flood He sentโ€ฆor even to the Egyptians who were drowned when Joseph passed by with His people.

Anderson
Anderson
In reply to  Paulo
01/01/2025 12:55

You're missing a Bible, my brother.
With all due respect. God did not send the flood out of nowhere, it took 120 years (Genesis 6:3) for Noah to complete the construction of the ark and during all that time (quite a lot of time) he was warning the people, who did not believe and were distant from the Creator, because on the contrary they would have run to help with the ark, but they disbelieved and were hit.
During the passage of the Red Sea, Moses was in the lead, not Joseph. God had already spoken to Pharaoh to free his people, but Pharaoh did not want to. God sent 10 pagras for Pharaoh to recognize who God was. Even so, after they were freed, Pharaoh went after God's people, but God protects His people. The Red Sea was opened for God's people. When they completed the passage, it closed. If Pharaoh had not gone after them, nothing would have happened to his army.
He saw that it is not God who kills, but rather our disobedience to him leads us to make choices that will harm us.

Evandro
Evandro
In reply to  Anderson
01/01/2025 13:20

Comrade, that was a wonderful explanation!!!! But to the fellow Atheist, I advise you to join any church that makes you feel good, because what really matters in a Church is the Birth, whether it be a Priest or an Evangelical Pastor!

Rick
Rick
In reply to  Anderson
01/01/2025 13:47

The **** told me to hand over everything or he was going to shoot me. I tried to argue that I needed the money to buy medicine and I died, but it wasn't his fault, it was mine... is that the logic in the church? The drowned little soldier could say to the pharaoh, "I'm not going to kill my king, you don't give me orders?" The little child who drowned in the flood was going to say "Daddy, you don't know anything, I did"? You can say your faith, just don't go out of your way to try to explain what you like... God killed horrors in the Old Testament, you just have to say that he is God and he can... the end.

lucasgabrieldeescola@gmail.com
lucasgabrieldeescola@gmail.com(@lucasgabrieldeescolagmail-com)
In reply to  Rick
06/01/2025 02:46

A ghost! There are ghosts entering cables and posting comments! Look at the evidence I found, that ghosts exist and participate in stories, the cause of the living, with this exposure I am convinced that the fault lies with the cable builder!

Cauby
Cauby
In reply to  Anderson
01/01/2025 15:07

I find it curious how the minds of these โ€œreligiousโ€ people work.
Applying similar reasoning, it wasn't Osama Bim Laden who killed thousands of people, it was the architects who built those towers or even the **** who climbed up there and ended up dying.

Spaschoal
Spaschoal
In reply to  Railson Barbosa de Araujo
31/12/2024 19:47

Does God exist? Have you seen him?

Paulo Roberto Alves
Paulo Roberto Alves
In reply to  Spaschoal
31/12/2024 20:45

Friend, if we saw the Lord GOD, He would not be Almighty God.

Claudio Lima de Andrade
Claudio Lima de Andrade
In reply to  Paulo Roberto Alves
01/01/2025 05:17

I totally agree.

Paulo Roberto Bianchi
Paulo Roberto Bianchi
In reply to  Spaschoal
31/12/2024 21:50

Yes, it does exist, and unfortunately it created **** like you.

Claudio Lima de Andrade
Claudio Lima de Andrade
In reply to  Spaschoal
01/01/2025 05:16

God is not seen, he is felt!

Sergio
Sergio
In reply to  Spaschoal
01/01/2025 06:26

I have never seen himโ€ฆ but I feel him in every second of my existence, everywhere.

Rick
Rick
In reply to  Sergio
01/01/2025 13:52

Worse still, they say this about Zeus, Chiva, Mohammed, Allah, Buddha, Zululu of the mountains... any believer will say that they feel it every day, everywhere, and in their hearts they really think they feel it... what a thing, but you must tell the truth, they are all lying, right? Or do you know things and they don't, right? The funniest thing is that if you had been born in another region of the planet you would feel the same thing for the local "god".

July
July
In reply to  Spaschoal
01/01/2025 09:03

I only saw how I spoke to him! A white light in a blue sky, I asked him if I could get rich with the lucky numbers to help those in need? He told me: son, there are greater needs than that!

Val
Val
In reply to  July
01/01/2025 12:19

Faith is a very dangerous thing for anyone.

Silvio Barros Pinheiro
Silvio Barros Pinheiro
In reply to  July
01/01/2025 12:25

I also spoke to him, at the guava tree.

Gomes de Sa
Gomes de Sa
In reply to  Spaschoal
01/01/2025 09:37

We are the image and likeness of God, the problem is that we are ungrateful for what was offered to us.

Carlos
Carlos
In reply to  Spaschoal
01/01/2025 09:44

You see the air you breathe, that's how God is.

Victor J. Mendes
Victor J. Mendes
In reply to  Spaschoal
01/01/2025 10:43

If God does not exist then how do you explain our existence?

Silvio Barros Pinheiro
Silvio Barros Pinheiro
In reply to  Victor J. Mendes
01/01/2025 12:25

Sunda explains.

Rick
Rick
In reply to  Victor J. Mendes
01/01/2025 14:02

Victor is a reflection of religion. In the face of ignorance, they throw everything to a โ€œgod.โ€ I donโ€™t know, so it was godโ€ฆ simple as that. Before, even the seasons were god. It didnโ€™t rain, it rained a little, it rained a lotโ€ฆ god! LOL

Valdeir
Valdeir
In reply to  Spaschoal
01/01/2025 11:38

Doesn't wind exist?
The Air? The Oxygen? There are thousands of things you have never seen...but they exist.

Rick
Rick
In reply to  Valdeir
01/01/2025 14:05

I'll make you see or feel all of these thousands in 2 minutes, now your god, my friend, you're going to unfold, invent all sorts of things, get so tangled up, and in the end you're going to say the same thing as the believer of Ala and Zeus...

Gilberto Evangelista
Gilberto Evangelista
In reply to  Spaschoal
01/01/2025 12:13

Existence testifies to its eternal existence so stop this arrangement and embellishment that it does not exist.

Guilherme
Guilherme
In reply to  Spaschoal
01/01/2025 13:09

Do you see the air you breathe? However, you do not know that it exists. I do not need to see it, but rather feel the presence that not everyone that the Lord Jesus allows to feel, because in His word it is written that it was not you who chose me, but rather I, the Lord, chose the voice. So if you are an unbeliever and do not feel the Lord, be careful because you must not be one of His chosen ones.

Evandro
Evandro
In reply to  Spaschoal
01/01/2025 13:31

If someone saw God, they would certainly go blind, because being all powerful and made of Intense Light, he would make anyone who saw him go blind!

Evandro
Evandro
In reply to  Spaschoal
01/01/2025 13:36

The Bible tells us that no one has ever seen God (John 1:18) except the Lord Jesus Christ. In Exodus 33:20, God declares, โ€œYou cannot see my face, for no man shall see me and live.โ€

Jonathan Porto
Jonathan Porto
In reply to  Spaschoal
02/01/2025 03:27

You have certainly seen demons, so if there are demons, there are also angels, there is a devil and there is one eternal and indivisible God!! God of Israel!!

Andre
Andre
In reply to  Spaschoal
02/01/2025 08:56

Have you ever seen electricity?

Francisco Jose
Francisco Jose
In reply to  Railson Barbosa de Araujo
01/01/2025 09:05

Which God? God does not exist

Bruch
Bruch
In reply to  Railson Barbosa de Araujo
01/01/2025 09:39

Just **** in

Val
Val
In reply to  Railson Barbosa de Araujo
01/01/2025 12:28

Faith is a very dangerous thing for anyone.

Roelitris
Roelitris
In reply to  Railson Barbosa de Araujo
01/01/2025 13:13

The structure was deactivated on October 2, 1975. Didn't read the article?

Maria Jose da Silva
Maria Jose da Silva
In reply to  Railson Barbosa de Araujo
01/01/2025 14:40

If this guy existed, it could even be.
We are really alone, we have no soul, this is all just a story. Accept that nothing hurts!

Felipe
Felipe
In reply to  Railson Barbosa de Araujo
01/01/2025 22:08

God does not exist.

Paul Lahr
Paul Lahr
31/12/2024 18:11

Impenetrable? We forgot to talk to the Russians.

VARLEI DISCUSSES
VARLEI DISCUSSES
In reply to  Paul Lahr
01/01/2025 20:27

Was there a Russian attack to prove anything?

Jose Soller Lopes Jr.
Jose Soller Lopes Jr.
31/12/2024 18:59

It will definitely be made available for Israel to kill Palestiniansโ€ฆ.these **** **** want to promote ethnic cleansing in occupied Palestine

Lookout landmarks
Lookout landmarks
In reply to  Jose Soller Lopes Jr.
31/12/2024 19:31

Good!!! But they will pay dearly for this!

Adelar
Adelar
In reply to  Jose Soller Lopes Jr.
31/12/2024 19:58

LOL I also think they're going to rip out all the land where it's located and transport it to Israel, lol, you loser.

Paulo Roberto Alves
Paulo Roberto Alves
In reply to  Jose Soller Lopes Jr.
31/12/2024 20:48

Friend, you don't know or recognize who you are talking about, be careful!!!

Eudes Gouveia
Eudes Gouveia
In reply to  Paulo Roberto Alves
01/01/2025 10:33

Are you threatening?

DarkImpalator
DarkImpalator
In reply to  Eudes Gouveia
01/01/2025 15:01

Why would he threaten? If whoever got involved with this nation one day only got screwed, ask God why it is like this... otherwise create your own universe with your own rules.

Pedro Castanhal
Pedro Castanhal
In reply to  Paulo Roberto Alves
01/01/2025 17:20

For me, the United States of America is a great ๐Ÿ’ฉ, when Japan was losing, it dropped a nuclear bomb, it wasn't a target. The military is genocide, and they continue to use war to try to stay in power, one day they must pay for the damages to humanity in hell.

Rygar
Rygar
In reply to  Pedro Castanhal
01/01/2025 17:45

Do you think the Japanese were nice? They were monsters who massacred civilians too.

Rudimar
Rudimar
In reply to  Pedro Castanhal
01/01/2025 18:42

Negative, the war would be won by the US, either way, but American losses would be very high, both in terms of war material and lives.
Emperor Hirohito would not sign an end to the war, only after the nuclear bomb did he change his mind.
Wright and Shockley estimated that the Allied invasion would cause between 1,7 and 4 million casualties in such a scenario, of which between 400 and 800 would be killed, while Japanese casualties would be around 5 to 10 million.

John
John
In reply to  Jose Soller Lopes Jr.
01/01/2025 00:38

Hahahaha you sick person

Paulo
Paulo
In reply to  John
01/01/2025 15:11

Zionist scoundrels

Beto
Beto
In reply to  Jose Soller Lopes Jr.
01/01/2025 11:37

Allocating this money to something so futile, being human is really rotten. This money would be better allocated to social distortions and inequality, hunger kills!!

Mario From Madeira Grande
Mario From Madeira Grande
In reply to  Beto
01/01/2025 17:23

But your own United States that makes war, that dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, that provoked the war in Ukraine, that encourages Israel to destroy Syria to steal oil and gas as you are innocent, they want you to **** be an age they just want power

Rudimar
Rudimar
In reply to  Beto
01/01/2025 19:05

Hitler who was a national socialist killed 20 million
Stalin killed 25 million Russians to establish communism.
Mao Zedong in China, to install communism, โ€œthe great leap forwardโ€ between 1958/1962 and the cultural revolution, 1966/1969,
killed 75 million Chinese and Tibetans.

There is no equality, people are different in thoughts, ideas, decisions and attitudes.
Changing your life, and suffering the consequences.
That's why there can't be equality.
Another thing, the most egalitarian country I've been to 8 times is Cuba.
In Cuba, equality reigns, everyone lives in poverty, except those linked to the communist party.
The people live in ****. For the well-being of the rulers.

DarkImpalator
DarkImpalator
In reply to  Jose Soller Lopes Jr.
01/01/2025 14:58

How can you have a **** made like you, dude? Your ancestors are probably of Jewish origin and you're there defending a terrorist... vtnc
Go and become a Jihadist and get your ass kicked and get impaled by the dog in hell... Have you not noticed that no one touches these people? The last one to touch them with 250 million soldiers will be screwed... Read a little about their history

Paulo
Paulo
In reply to  DarkImpalator
01/01/2025 15:12

**** jew ****

Paulo
Paulo
In reply to  DarkImpalator
01/01/2025 15:12

V4g@bundo c4n@lha

Valdir
Valdir
In reply to  DarkImpalator
01/01/2025 15:19

The ignorant person doesn't even know how to defend a terrorist. (Etรญlica) LOL...

Abalen Abirached
Abalen Abirached
31/12/2024 19:01

In fact, given technological advances, projects are becoming obsolete and no longer worthwhile. I guarantee that even without this project, the US is much better protected today. Instead of waiting for the missile to arrive, it is shot down as soon as it is launchedโ€ฆ

Roberto Carlos
Roberto Carlos
In reply to  Abalen Abirached
31/12/2024 20:56

Honestly, from everything I see coming from the United States, even more so after spending some time there. The United States is more about marketing and less about results. I see Israel's impenetrable system, including the Mossad, which is infinitely better than the Secret Service, the CIA, the FBI, etc., and it took a beating from the Hamas terrorists. Note: I don't even remotely agree with the response given by Israel, which has enough technology to carry out surgical strikes but used it as an excuse for alcoholic cleansing. Look at Russia, which was expecting a "krieg blitz" and is still at war with Ukraine. The world is different today.

Jose Eduardo
Jose Eduardo
In reply to  Roberto Carlos
01/01/2025 08:54

What is alcohol cleansing and stopping drinking cachaรงa?

Zacchaeus Ribeiro
Zacchaeus Ribeiro
In reply to  Roberto Carlos
01/01/2025 09:30

The text makes some sense, โ€œBUTโ€โ€ฆ

Rodrigo
Rodrigo
In reply to  Roberto Carlos
01/01/2025 16:20

Marketing?? LOL
The US is the only country in the world that spends around 3 trillion a year on defenseโ€ฆ and has been doing so for decades.
So you're saying that suddenly, as if by magic, all of the US's advanced technology became obsolete and other countries have already surpassed the US?
kkkk

Sandro de Castro
Sandro de Castro
In reply to  Rodrigo
02/01/2025 11:53

Exactly... And any **** that happens in the world calls the USA to help... They are the ones who have the best and most sophisticated equipment for everything imaginable... They are the ones who have the best special forces in the world and are on constant standby.

Cat king
Cat king
In reply to  Roberto Carlos
01/01/2025 22:39

I challenge all of you who doubt God, you ungrateful humans

Cat king
Cat king
In reply to  Roberto Carlos
01/01/2025 22:40

I challenge all of you who doubt God, you ungrateful humans, that Orion falls upon you humans.

Brazilian John
Brazilian John
In reply to  Abalen Abirached
01/01/2025 11:07

Instead of waiting for the missile to arrive, they devastate the target country first. They're just afraid of Russia, lol

Geraldo Trevisan
Geraldo Trevisan
31/12/2024 20:46

How is the people's mind and just see the comments below

Cat king
Cat king
In reply to  Geraldo Trevisan
01/01/2025 22:37

I challenge all of you who doubt God

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