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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.
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.
This article is a list of the emergency and first responder agencies that responded to the September 11 attacks against the United States, on September 11, 2001.These agencies responded during and after the attack and were part of the search-and-rescue, security, firefighting, clean-up, investigation, evacuation, support and traffic control on September 11.
August 16, 2024 at 10:37 AM. Nearly a year after Matthew Perry’s death from an accidental ketamine overdose, his assistant and doctors were arrested. Phillip Faraone/Getty. Matthew Perry attends ...
U.S. Air Force security guards exchanged gunfire with a person or people who opened fire at an entrance to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland early Saturday, according to a spokesperson for the base.
The team, named the Department of Nike Archives (DNA), collects and catalogs items from Olympic memorabilia to more than 200,000 pairs of shoes—including the very first Air Max sneakers.
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 ...
As part of Nike’s three-year cost-saving plan to bring it back from slumping sales and compete with a new wave of sneaker brands, the shoe giant is in the process of laying off up to 2% of its ...