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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. 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 ...

  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. Nike Missile Site HM-69 - Wikipedia

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    The Nike Missile Site HM-69 (also known as Hole in the Donut or Everglades Nike Site or Missile Base) is a former Nike-Hercules missile base, now listed as a historic site west of Homestead, Florida, United States. It is located on Long Pine Key Road in the Everglades National Park. The site with 22 buildings opened in 1964 and closed in 1979 ...

  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.

  7. MIM-3 Nike Ajax - Wikipedia

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    The site has been preserved in the condition it was in at the time it was decommissioned in 1974. The site began as a Nike Ajax base and was later converted to Nike Hercules. [31] The second best preserved Nike installation is site NY-56 at Fort Hancock in Sandy Hook, New Jersey. The site has been restored and contains the original missile ...

  8. Nike Missile Site C-47 - Wikipedia

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    Nike missile sites were constructed in defensive rings around major urban and industrial areas. Chicago was likely selected because of its population, the presence of several military bases, and the Gary, Indiana, steel industry. [2] Nike C-47 (Nike 1B, 1C/12H, 20A/12L-U, (8L-H)) near Portage was designed with two units nearly a mile apart.

  9. List of Nike missile locations - Wikipedia

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    List of Nike missile sites From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.