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    coordinates) 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...
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    former Nike Missile launch site at Fort Barry, in the Marin Headlands to the north of San Francisco, California, United States. Opened in 1954, the site was...
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    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...
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    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...
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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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    anti-ballistic missile system List of Nike missile sites Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Пуск Ракеты "ЯРС" РС-24 The launch of a Rocket "YARS" RS...
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    Nike Zeus was an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system developed by the United States Army during the late 1950s and early 1960s that was designed to destroy...
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    development of Nike-X, controversy over the effectiveness of anti-ballistic missile systems became more prominent. Critiques of the Nike-X included an...
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    century. In the 1950s, a series of anti-aircraft missiles were developed as part of Project Nike. The latest in the series, Nike-Zeus, offered extremely long-range...
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    CIM-10 Bomarc (redirect from BOMARC missile)
    two sites in Canada. The first US site was declared operational in 1959, but with only a single working missile. Bringing the rest of the missiles into...
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    A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched...
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    Spartan missiles on display. Sprint (missile) Nike-Hercules missile Nike Zeus Missile Command (video game) Related lists List of military aircraft of the...
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    the first stage of the Nike Ajax and Nike Hercules missiles as part of Project Nike. It was subsequently employed in a variety of missiles and multi-stage...
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    San Vicente Mountain Park (category U.S. Army Nike sites)
    129; -118.513 List of Nike missile sites "L.A.'s Cold War Sentinels" Los Angeles Daily News Sunday October 3, 1993 pages 1,8,9 "Map and Site Information:...
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    Safeguard Program (category Anti-ballistic missiles of the United States)
    The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 limited the US and Soviet Union to two ABM sites each. Safeguard was scaled back to sites in North Dakota and...
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    Elmendorf–Richardson, is the location of one of the best-preserved surviving Nike-Hercules missile installations in the state. The site's structures include a battery...
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    Sentinel program (category Abandoned military rocket and missile projects of the United States)
    have a total of 480 Spartan and 192 Sprint missiles. Sentinel was a response to the rapidly rising costs of the earlier Nike-X concept. Nike-X was designed...
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    anti-ballistic missile (ABM) is a surface-to-air missile designed to counter ballistic missiles (missile defense). Ballistic missiles are used to deliver...
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  • the site is properly documented through a reference. Missile locations with no launches are not included in the list. Proposed and planned sites and sites...
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    beam is used, as in Nike Ajax. They also have the problem that radar signals spread out with increasing distance, making the missile increasingly inaccurate...
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    The Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands (IATA: BKH, ICAO: PHBK, FAA LID: BKH) is a U.S. naval facility and airport located five nautical miles...
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    warhead, comparable to the U.S. Nike Zeus. The A-350R (NATO reporting name ABM-1B) was introduced with the advanced A-35M missile system and became operational...
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    Hyunmoo (category Ballistic missiles of South Korea)
    1960s Nike Hercules missile system; the US designates it as the Nike Hercules Korea (NHK-1). In 1986, South Korea succeeded in test-launching a missile with...
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    American medium-range surface-to-air missile. It was designed to be a much more mobile counterpart to the MIM-14 Nike Hercules, trading off range and altitude...
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    Fort MacArthur (category Formerly Used Defense Sites in California)
    integrating the area's Integrated Fire Control (IFC) sites (16 sites for MIM-14 Nike-Hercules missiles until 1968). The DC had High Frequency Crosstell communication...
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    Redstone Arsenal (category Military Superfund sites)
    and MIM-23 Hawk missiles, accelerated the development of the Nike Zeus system, and began development of the MGM-31 Pershing missile system, which later...
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    Missile Master was a US Army surface-to-air missile control complex/facility. It controlled Project Nike missiles. Virtually all Missile Masters had a...
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    Mount Disappointment (California) (category U.S. Army Nike sites)
    moved there instead. A Nike missile site was located there in 1955 and the summit was flattened to accommodate it. The missile site was abandoned in 1965...
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