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2. 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 ...

3. Nike Hercules - Wikipedia

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   system. command guidance. 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. Arlington Heights Army Air Defense Site - Wikipedia

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   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).

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

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   Jackson and a bunch of fellow veterans have made all of that possible, keeping the Project Nike story alive 50 years after Fort Hancock closed and the program was deactivated in 1974.

6. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense - Wikipedia

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   A Ground-Based Interceptor loaded into a silo at Fort Greely, Alaska in July 2004. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense ( GMD ), previously National Missile Defense (NMD), is an anti-ballistic missile system implemented by the United States of America for defense against ballistic missiles, during the midcourse phase of ballistic trajectory flight.

7. The Yankees continue to fall, All-Star starters are ... - AOL

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   Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman dig into what is going wrong with the Yankees, who was selected as an All-Star starter and give their picks for The Good, The Bad & The Uggla.