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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. Nike Hercules - Wikipedia

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    The Nike Hercules, initially designated SAM-A-25 and later MIM-14, was a surface-to-air missile (SAM) used by U.S. and NATO armed forces for medium- and high-altitude long-range air defense. [ 4] It was normally armed with the W31 nuclear warhead, but could also be fitted with a conventional warhead for export use.

  4. 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 ...

  5. MIM-3 Nike Ajax - Wikipedia

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    platform. fixed erector/launchers. The Nike Ajaxwas an American guided surface-to-air missile(SAM) developed by Bell Labsfor the United States Army. The world's first operational guided surface-to-air missile,[1]the Nike Ajax was designed to attack conventional bomber aircraftflying at high subsonic speedsand altitudes above 50,000 feet (15 km).

  6. 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.

  7. Denmark closes major shipping strait over faulty missile launcher

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    Denmark has closed one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes over an activated but malfunctioning missile launcher on a Danish navy ship, the country’s military said Thursday.

  8. File:Denmark physical map.svg - Wikipedia

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    File:Denmark physical map.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 704 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 282 × 240 pixels | 564 × 480 pixels | 902 × 768 pixels | 1,202 × 1,024 pixels | 2,404 × 2,048 pixels | 851 × 725 pixels. Original file ‎ (SVG file, nominally 851 × 725 pixels, file size: 379 KB) This is a file from the ...

  9. Nike Missile Site C-47 - Wikipedia

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    Added to NRHP. January 21, 2000. Nike Missile Site C-47 is a former missile site near Portage, Indiana. The Nike defense system was a Cold War -era missile system in the United States. Nike missiles were radar guided, supersonic antiaircraft missiles. The planners hoped that Nike would make a direct attack on the U.S. so costly as to be futile.