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  2. List of Nike missile sites - Wikipedia

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    After the phase-out of the Nike Ajax system, sites B-05, B-36, and B-73 remained supplied with Hercules missiles. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) B-21DC established at Fort Heath, MA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center.

  3. Louis Blotner Radar Bomb Scoring Site - Wikipedia

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    The Louis Blotner Radar Site was a tracking site site (Not an RBS site) in Connor, Maine at the former NIKE missile launch site. Activated in June 1963 and operational until after 1979, The Ashland site was an AUTOTRACK radar site operated by Detachment 7 of the 1st Combat Evaluation Group. [4] The station simulated Electronic Countermeasures ...

  4. Loring Air Force Base - Wikipedia

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    The sites were manned by men from the 3rd Missile Battalion, 61st Air Defense Artillery Regiment, and provided defense for Loring and the northeastern approaches to the United States. In 1960, sites L-13 and L-58 underwent conversion from Ajax missiles to the MIM-14 Nike-Hercules missiles.

  5. Project Nike - Wikipedia

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    Project Nike (Greek: Νίκη, "Victory") was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953. A great number of the technologies and rocket systems used for ...

  6. 'Last line of defense': Cold War reheats at Nike missile ...

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    Though there were once more than 250 Nike bases around the country, Fort Hancock’s (known as Nike Missile Site NY-56) is one of the few the public can experience to this extent. Last month ...

  7. MIM-3 Nike Ajax - Wikipedia

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    The Nike Ajax was an American guided surface-to-air missile (SAM) developed by Bell Labs for the United States Army.The world's first operational guided surface-to-air missile, [1] the Nike Ajax was designed to attack conventional bomber aircraft flying at high subsonic speeds and altitudes above 50,000 feet (15 km).

  8. List of rocket launch sites - Wikipedia

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    Overview of rocket launch sites worldwide – astronautix.com. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral – nasa.gov. Description and map of Cape Canaveral – astronautix.com. Missile Range Tool – Carlos Labs. Baikonur – russianspaceweb.com. Description and map of Baikonur – astronautix.com. Description and map of Kourou – astronautix.com.

  9. East Point Military Reservation - Wikipedia

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    East Point Military Reservation. /  42.4199944°N 70.9099583°W  / 42.4199944; -70.9099583. East Point Military Reservation was a World War I and World War II coastal defense site located in Nahant, Massachusetts. In 1955–62 it was a Nike missile launch site. [ 1] In 1967 the site was converted into the Marine Science Center of ...