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    The LIM-49 Spartan was a United States Army anti-ballistic missile, designed to intercept attacking nuclear warheads from intercontinental ballistic missiles...
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    Grommet nuclear test series, tested the unique W71 warhead design for the LIM-49 Spartan anti-ballistic missile. With an explosive yield of almost 5 megatons...
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  • Railway (C&O) LIM-49 Spartan, American anti-ballistic missile Spartans (Greek political party), an ultranationalist party in Greek politics Spartan (chemistry...
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    anti-ballistic missile program. The complex provided launch and control for 30 LIM-49 Spartan anti-ballistic missiles, and 70 shorter-range Sprint anti-ballistic...
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    a last-ditch defense against RVs that evaded the much longer-ranged LIM-49 Spartan. Sentinel was itself changed to become the Safeguard Program, which...
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    missile. Missile guidance – (United States) Sprint – (United States) LIM-49 Spartan – (United States) Safeguard Program – (United States) S-25 Berkut –...
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  • Thor-Agena Thorad-Agena Thor DSV-2 Thor DSV-2U Thor-Burner Thor-Delta LIM-49 Spartan LIM-49 Nike Zeus GAM-87 Skybolt MGR-1 Honest John AIR-2 Genie (1956) MGR-3...
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  • supporting data entry shops. BGM-109 Tomahawk missile Harpoon missile LIM-49 Spartan M47 Dragon Delta II rocket Saturn S-IV second stage Saturn S-IVB third...
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    North Dakota. Aerial image of Remote Sprint Launch Site No. 2. The LIM-49 Spartan missile was intended to intercept warheads above the earth's atmosphere...
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    all of these upgrades was launched as Nike-X. The main missile was LIM-49 Spartan—a Nike Zeus upgraded for longer range and a much larger 5 megaton warhead...
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  • Minuteman III LGM-35 Sentinel LGM-118 Peacekeeper Lieying-60 SAM LIM-49 Spartan LIM-99 LIM-100 Little Joe (shipborne surface-to-air) Long March cruise missile...
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  • radiation when irradiated with neutrons. The W71 warhead used in the LIM-49 Spartan anti-ballistic missile had a gold tamper around its secondary to maximize...
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    Perimeter Acquisition Radars, 17 Missile Site Radars, 480 long-range LIM-49 Spartan missiles, and 220 short-range Sprint missiles. Army support for the...
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    as well as the LGM-25C Titan II and LGM-30 Minuteman ICBMs, and the LIM-49 Spartan ABM. On 1 July 1971, Kirtland merged with Sandia Base and Manzano Base...
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    the North Dakota ABM site received its complement of nuclear-tipped LIM-49 Spartan and Sprint Missiles during the following spring. The site was declared...
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  • site was changed (before construction) to hold four Sprint and four LIM-49 Spartan launchers. The launcher was abandoned after the Safeguard test program...
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    enough energy to destroy a warhead. This concept formed the basis of the LIM-49 Spartan missile and its W71 warhead. Due to the large volume in which the system...
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    Nike Zeus (redirect from LIM-49 Nike Zeus)
    sources appear to confuse measures between the Zeus A, B and Spartan. The A and Spartan figures are taken from US Strategic and Defensive Missile Systems...
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  • Operation Grommet nuclear test series, tested the warhead design for the LIM-49 Spartan anti-ballistic missile. With an explosive yield of almost 5-megatons...
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    nuclear test. Its purpose was to test the radiation hardness of the LIM-49 Spartan anti-ballistic missile. It was the largest HLOS test conducted by the...
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  • Nuclear triad, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Nike Zeus, Nike-X, LIM-49 Spartan, Sprint, Anti-ballistic missile, 41 for Freedom, Yankee-class submarine...
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    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and deployed on the LIM-49A Spartan missile, a component of the Safeguard Program, an anti-ballistic missile...
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  • Andreas (24 December 2002). "Western Electric/McDonnell Douglas LIM-49 Nike Zeus/Spartan". Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles. Retrieved 18...
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    present, to pray for the person to be executed; Our prison conditions are spartan but adequate. Visiting Justices, who are prominent members of the community...
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  • club, with Singaporean businessman Peter Lim owning the rest; David Beckham purchased a 10% share from Lim in 2019. Under the management duo of Anthony...
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    with Persia's erstwhile allies, the Spartans, who, under Agesilaus II, invaded Asia Minor. To redirect the Spartans' attention to Greek affairs, Artaxerxes...
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    Jose Improv, Sikh Gurdwara of San Jose, Peralta Adobe, Excite Ballpark, Spartan Stadium, Japantown San Jose, Winchester Mystery House, Raging Waters, Circle...
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  • tracking information and attack them. This was a serious concern for the LIM-49 Nike Zeus program of the late 1950s, and one of the reasons it was ultimately...
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  • S2CID 12781225. Rosenblatt, Frank (1962). Principles of Neurodynamics. Spartan, New York. Huang, Guang-Bin; Zhu, Qin-Yu; Siew, Chee-Kheong (2006). "Extreme...
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    original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2017. Warren, James A., American Spartans: The U.S. Marines, New York: Simon & Schuster (2005), pp. 139–40: Repeated...
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