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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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    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. MIM-3 Nike Ajax - Wikipedia

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    Contents. MIM-3 Nike Ajax. A Nike Ajax in firing position. The Nike Ajax was an American guided surface-to-air missile (SAM) developed by Bell Labs for the United States Army. The world's first operational guided surface-to-air missile, [1] the Nike Ajax was designed to attack conventional bomber aircraft flying at high subsonic speeds and ...

  5. Highlands Army Air Defense Site - Wikipedia

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    The Highlands Army Air Defense Site [2] ( HAADS) was a United States Army air defence site in Middletown Township, New Jersey . The Army Air Defense Command Post (AADCP) at Highlands directed the Nike fire units in the New York Defense Area, replacing the Nike missile "manual operations center" at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island. [3]

  6. List of the United States military vehicles by model number

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    M2 half-track truck, (T9) (Ford) M2 half-track car, (T14) Autocar, White Motor Co. M3 half-track, Autocar, White Motor Co. M4 81 mm Mortar Carriage; M5 half-track variant of M2 half-track car built by International Harvester; M9 half-track car; M15 half-track Multiple Gun Carriage built by Autocar; M21 mortar carrier, 81mm; Pre-consecutive tractors

  7. Radio-frequency identification - Wikipedia

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    They provided images of RF engineers driving an RFID-enabled van around a building and trying to take an inventory of items inside. They also discussed satellite tracking of a passive RFID tag. The concerns raised may be addressed in part by use of the Clipped Tag. The Clipped Tag is an RFID tag designed to increase privacy for the purchaser of ...

  8. Nike’s secret department named ‘DNA’ is home to the first Air ...

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    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.

  9. Western Electric System 1393 Radar Course Directing Central

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    The later Anti Tactical Ballistic Missile (ATBM) version of the battery control console was slightly different. The Western Electric System 1393 Radar Course Directing Central [2] (RCDC) was a Cold War complex of radar/computer systems within the overall Improved Nike Hercules Air Defense Guided Missile System (separate from the missiles ...