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Throughout this year, Fort Greely military installation has been receiving, and will continue to receive, deliveries from Boeing to boost its missile defense abilities.

According to a new release from Boeing, a total of eight 135,000 pound silos and eight 144,000 pound silo interface vaults were delivered to the military installation in April. These, the news release states, “will be emplaced into Missile Field 4 and used to house and maintain ground-based interceptors, which help defend the U.S. against long-range ballistic missiles.”

The firm will be delivering five additional silos this fall, and three more are expected to be delivered spring 2021.

Fort Greely is one of two locations in the U.S. that house key elements of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system. As it stands, the system involves 40 interceptors based at Fort Greely and four based at Vandenburg Air Force Base, California.

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