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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.
The following is a list of Nike missile sites operated by the United States Army.This article lists sites in the United States, most responsible to Army Air Defense Command; however, the Army also deployed Nike missiles to Europe as part of the NATO alliance, with sites being operated by both American and European military forces.
MIM-3 Nike on a launcher. Bell accepted the challenge, and Project Nike was officially formed on 8 February 1945. [8] The Bell team was given the task of attacking bombers flying at 500 mph (800 km/h) or more, [N 2] at altitudes between 20,000 and 60,000 feet (6,100 and 18,300 m), and performing a 3 g turn at 40,000 feet (12,000 m).
Paul Klco sits in the Nike Battery control room, one of three buildings that worked together if the need came to launch an actual missile at the Fort Hancock Nike missile base at Sandy Hook.
Project Wizard was the US Air Force's on-again, off-again ABM system that was ultimately replaced by Nike Zeus. Violet Friend was a Royal Air Force project similar to Zeus in many ways. The A-35 anti-ballistic missile system was a Soviet system roughly equivalent to the Nike Zeus.
Control console Test panel in CDG Digital computer of CDG (TSQ-38). The Raytheon AN/MSQ-18 Battalion Missile Operations System [1] (AN/TSQ-38 for the helicopter-transportable variant) [2] was a Project Nike command, control, and coordination system for "each associated missile battery" to control a Nike missile as directed from a Raytheon AN/MSQ-28 at the Army Air Defense Command Post. [3]
Missiles and Nike installation sites of Project Nike — in deployment from 1953 to 1978. A Cold War surface-to-air missiles of the United States defense system, with derived sounding rockets . Subcategories
Missile Master [2] was a US Army surface-to-air missile control complex/facility. [1] [3] [4] [5] It controlled Project Nike missiles.Virtually all Missile Masters had a bunker housing the Martin AN/FSG-1 Antiaircraft Defense System, [6] as well as additional structures for "an AN/FPS-33 defense acquisition radar (DAR) or similar radar, two height-finder radars," and identification friend or ...