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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.
Nike Hercules bases remained in operation at C49/50, C-72, and C-93 as well as at sites C-46 and C-47 in northern Indiana, until 1974. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) C-80DC established at Arlington Heights AI, IL in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. The site was initially an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center.
The Nike sites in a Defense Area formed a circle around these cities and bases. There was no fixed number of Nike batteries in a Defense Area and the actual number of batteries varied from a low of two in the Barksdale AFB Defense Area to a high of 22 in the Chicago Defense Area. In the Continental United States the sites were numbered from 01 ...
Arlington Heights Army Air Defense Site. / 42.0640389°N 87.9984778°W / 42.0640389; -87.9984778. The Arlington Heights Army Air Defense Site was a Project Nike Missile Master site near Chicago, Illinois. It operated from 1960 until 1968. Installation started in late 1959 [1] after the United States Army had purchased 44 acres (18 ha).
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.
Fort Sheridan, Highwood, Illinois (closed 1993) Fort Arlington, Arlington Heights, Illinois. Green River Ordnance Plant. Haley Army Airfield. Joliet Army Ammunition Plant, Joliet, Illinois. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois. Savanna Army Depot, Savanna, Illinois (Closed circa 2000)
1959 – present. Garrison information. Garrison. 662d Radar Squadron. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Oakdale Air Force Station (ADC ID: RP-62, NORAD ID: Z-62) is a United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 1.3 miles (2.1 km) east of the Pittsburgh suburb of Oakdale, Pennsylvania. It was closed in 1969.
Air Force Station. Arlington Heights Air Force Station was activated on 1 April 1960, when Williams Bay AFS was redesignated from P-31 to gap-filler RP-31F. In 1962, the station began providing Semi-Automatic Ground Environment radar tracks to Data Center DC-02 at Truax Field, Wisconsin, for the Chicago Air Defense Sector 's ground-controlled ...