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	Project Nike -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Project Nike was a (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare) US Army project, proposed in May 1945 by (additional info and facts about Bell Labs) Bell Labs, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system.
		For the Nike, two main (Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects) radars were used, one to track the target and another to track the missile.
		Nike Hercules was included in (The first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) SALT I discussions as an (A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles) ABM.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/project_nike.htm (2136 words)

	Nike Missile Site C47 -- Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National Register of Historic Places Travel ...
		The Nike defense system was a significant aspect of both civilian life and military planning during the Cold War era in the United States.
		Although the Army's first surface-to-air missile defense program began in a 1944 memorandum, it was not until the Soviet Union developed new long range, high altitude bombers capable of reaching the United States, combined with the detonation of their atomic bomb in 1949, that the United States began to respond.
		Nike Missile Site C47 is closed to the public, except the Administrative area, which is a recreational area/store, open 1:00pm to 7:00pm, Monday-Friday and 11:00 to 7:00pm Saturdays and can be contacted at 219-947-7733.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/nik.htm (663 words)

	Hart Island Nike Base History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The curious juxtaposition of the Army's Nike missile launch facilities (their remains in foreground) and the monument was purely coincidental, reflecting available parcels of land as well as the technical requirements of the Nike missile system.
		The fins and control surfaces of the missiles were attached within the building that stood here where also their internal guidance equipment was tested before they were moved to the adjacent fueling and warheading area.
		Nike missile battery NY-15, the only missile site within to New York metro area to be located entirely on two offshore islands, was declared operational during 1955.
	www.correctionhistory.org /html/chronicl/hart/nike/hartnike.htm (1154 words)

	The Fort MacArthur Museum Association: Nike Missiles of Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Nike missiles were launched from a self-contained launch area.
		The missiles were stored underground on rails and were brought to the surface by an elevator.
		The Nike missiles employed the "command guidance" system in which the major control equipment was ground-based and not part of the expendable missile.
	www.ftmac.org /Lanike1.htm (627 words)

	White Sands Missile Range
		Nike Ajax missiles were repaired, assembled and fueled at this site and then moved to the launch area further to the southwest.
		Nike was designed to get close to its target and then a radio signal from the ground would fire the warhead.
		Nike, the camp burro, joins the men for a party in the mess hall.
	www.wsmr.army.mil /pao/FactSheets/rcrc.htm (2371 words)

	rogue nike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At 12:35 p.m., Battery C was "practicing Nike procedures" when the rocket booster on an Ajax which was being elevated on its launcher suddenly ignited and the missile took off.
		By the end of the military cleanup of the area near their homes, the only traces left of the missile's fall were two holes in the soft mud and a few bent and splintered small trees.
		When the missile was fired, the yoke support hinged down and away as soon as there was any forward or upward movement, allowing the missile to clear the rail.
	community-2.webtv.net /nikew25/roguenike (3093 words)

	Nuclear ABMs of the USA
		Nike missiles (although the Zeus appears to have no means of support).
		Ed Thelen's Nike Hercules site has some info and another photo of an unsupported Nike Zeus in the history section (the photo appears to be a reverse angle of the photo at the US Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project).
		Nike family of missiles, some of which show a Nike Zeus which appears to be standing up of its own free will.
	www.paineless.id.au /missiles (2115 words)

	Articles - Anti-aircraft warfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Originally missiles were useful only as a replacement for the very largest of anti-aircraft guns, but by the 1960s they had been scaled down to the point where they were also replacing smaller weapons previously serviced by guns in the 40 mm to 57 mm range.
		Even this formerly first-rate weapon is currently being replaced by a new missile system, the Rolling Airframe Missile, which is smaller, faster, and allows for mid-flight course correction (guidance) to ensure a hit.
		Air defence by air forces is typically taken care of by fighter jets carrying air-to-air missiles which is beyond the scope of this article, however most air forces choose to augment air base defence with surface-to-air missile systems as they are such valuable targets for enemy aircraft.
	www.dcustom.com /articles/Anti-aircraft_artillery (2943 words)

	26) Nike Missiles at Fort Tilden
		The tour of the Nike facility at Fort Tilden was conducted by Lt. Col.
		On July 4, 1960, the New York area Missile Master was activated and manned by personnel from the 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade (formerly stationed at Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island, NY).
		Nike missiles were never fired from Fort Tilden.
	www.geocities.com /fort_tilden/nike.html (614 words)

	w-25 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Missile Master, which first became operational with the 35th Artillery Brigade at Fort Meade in December 1957, assured that no unengaged intruder aircraft penetrated the defended area and that only one battery attacked a particular target.
		"During a fire mission the missile on the elevator-launcher of one launching section is fired, followed by the missile[s] on the elevator-launcher[s] of the [second and third sections].
		Missile components and fire control equipment were shipped to various Army depots to be reconditioned and issued to United States and allied forces still operational with Hercules.
	community-2.webtv.net /nikew25/w25 (7409 words)

	About NIKE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This system, the NIKE Ajax, was conceived near the end of World War II and developed during the early years of the Cold War.
		As the Nike Ajax system underwent, testing during the early 1950`s, the Army became concerned that the missile was incapable of stopping a massed Sovied air attack.
		To enhance the missile`s capabilities, the Army explored the feasibility of equipping Ajax with nuclear warhead, but that proved impractical, in July 1953 the service authorized development of a second generation surface-to-air-missile, the Nike Hercules.
	www.goerigk-jever.de /doing.html (521 words)

	Nike Sites with Earlier or Later Use by the Air Force
		Similarly, when Nike sites were inactivated and disposed of by the Army, some of them were transferred to the US Air Force.
		Disposition of the Nike facilities is unknown; Bellows AFS is still an active off-base annex of Hickam AFB, serving primarily as a recreational facility.
		This Nike complex, 3.5 miles north-northeast of Cheney, Washington, was operational from approximately 1957 to 1960.
	www.airforcebase.net /usaf/usafnike.html (3519 words)

	Western Electric MIM-3 Nike Ajax
		The first unguided Nike missiles were fired in 1946, but problems with the original multi-rocket booster (8 solid-fuel rockets wrapped around the missile tail) soon led to delays in the program.
		The main propulsion of the missile was a Bell liquid-fueled rocket motor, and the flight path was controlled by the four small fins around the nose.
		The three high-explosive fragmentation warheads of the missile (in nose, center, and aft section) were detonated by ground command, when the paths of target and missile met.
	www.designation-systems.net /dusrm/m-3.html (651 words)

	rcrc_welcome
		In 1953, the first guided missile antiaircraft system, Nike Ajax, became operational and the guns slowly began to be replaced by the supersonic missiles.
		Located 15 miles west of Carrizozo, New Mexico, it was on the side of the Chupadera Mesa in the northeast corner of the vast White Sands Proving Ground complex operated by the US Army Ordnance Corps.
		Tour where the Nike Ajax missiles were assembled and launched.
	home.sport.rr.com /nikeajax/rcrc_welcome.html (624 words)

	U.S. Army Nike Missle Base Denton Texas
		I'm not that well informed on the Nike missile air defense sites so my comments are pretty much just about what I saw and the condition of the base.
		According to the San Fransisco Nike Volunteer web site the depressions in the concrete were used to angle the missle for filling and draining the fuel.
		The missiles would then be manually pushed on tracks from the each left to the launchers on the surface.
	www.civildefensemuseum.com /nike/index.html (822 words)

	GOGA - Nike Missiles Site SF-88 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		During the tense years from 1953 to 1979, the United States Army built and operated a total of 280 Nike missile firing batteries in the United States.
		These missile sites were emplaced as the last line of defense against Soviet bombers.
		This valuable historical resource is the only restored Nike missile site in the entire country.
	www.nps.gov /goga/nike/index.htm (221 words)

	The Straight Dope: Were there Nike missile sites on the Chicago lakefront?
		The Nike missile program had its origins during World War II, when U.S. military planners realized that jets and other fast, high-flying aircraft then under development were beyond the reach of existing antiaircraft weapons.
		Most Nike batteries were built on the urban fringe or in outlying or otherwise remote city districts--the Los Angeles sites included one at Fort MacArthur at the city's southern tip and another on San Vicente Mountain in Van Nuys.
		Geography dictated the atypical deployment--without the missiles, the long, uninflected lakefront was vulnerable to invading Hoosiers from Michigan City or, a bit more plausibly, an attack by Russian bombers coming in over the water.
	www.straightdope.com /columns/050513.html (856 words)

	trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		ICBM vulnerability refers to the danger that the missiles may be attacked in their silos, and the green colour is related to one aspect of vulnerability.
		A World War II German antishipping missile had a guidance system involving a rod lowered to the surface of the ocean to sense the missile's altitude.
		An early plan for the Polaris missile had the submarine releasing a column of soap bubbles, and the missile rising up through the froth, which would be less dense than seawater.
	www.polisci.ucla.edu /faculty/boneill/trivia.html (2407 words)

	Ed's Nike Missile Web Site
		The Nike surface to air missile system was named after the winged goddess of victory in Greek mythology.
		The 1st version, the Nike Ajax, was deployed in the U.S. from 1954 to the early 1960s.
		The missile (with booster) was launched 0.4 seconds ago, is accelerating at 25 times the force of earth's gravity, has risen 60 feet, and it is now going 210 miles per hour.
	ed-thelen.org (1812 words)

	NIKE Air Defense Missile Sites
		Locating records of the NIKE program involves determining which agency was the originating agency for the information that you need, and understanding how that material was preserved and retired.
		Before beginning the search for records, however, a historian would be well advised to contact the various historical offices of the successor agencies to learn if the historians assigned to them ever compiled monographic studies or assembled background historical files.
		Finding the records of an individual operational NIKE site is a more difficult research problem, because the records themselves have been split into several locations.
	www.army.mil /CMH-PG/faq/nike.htm (342 words)

	Nike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Nike, in Greek mythology, was 'victory', personified as a goddess.
		Nike were forced into an embarassing U-turn when one a customer attempted to purchase some running shoes in January.
		Incidents/Injuries: Nike has received three reports of heel tabs separating from The Nike Swoosh symbol is on the outside and sole of the shoe.
	promotional-product.sitesscout.com /q/promotional-product-nike.htm (931 words)

	W2HYN Page 4
		The Army moved into the small town of Bristol, RI in 1956 and began building a Nike Ajax Missile complex which was to be one of seven defending the city of Providence, Rhode Island.
		It was a rough beginning for a Nike base but soon things began to shape up and the base started to look as it should.
		The missiles were fueled, warheaded and mated with their boosters right in the Launcher Area Missile complex.
	www.frontiernet.net /~w2hyn51/page4.html (448 words)

	Introduction - Vigilant and Invincible
		This article does not necessarily reflect the position of the US Army Aviation and Missile Command, the Army Materiel Command, or the Department of the Army.
		From the first deployment of World War II-vintage antiaircraft guns in 1950 to the inactivation of the last NIKE HERCULES missile system in 1974, ARADCOM provided a deterrent to the Soviet strategic bomber threat for the U.S. homeland.
		One of these projects, called NIKE after the Greek goddess of victory, would grow to a full deployment of more than 240 missile sites in the United States.
	www.redstone.army.mil /history/vigilant/sus_intro.html (674 words)

	Former missile site to house school buses - PittsburghLIVE.com
		South Fayette School District plans to maintain its fleet of 30 buses inside buildings that once were part of a Nike missile site.
		As early as Monday, contractors could begin to demolish the current bus garage next to the football field, and to renovate three former Army buildings on land next to the high school.
		The land near the high school was part of a Nike missile site from the Cold War era, although missiles were removed from the area in the late 1960s.
	pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/education/s_186613.html (341 words)

	2nd Missile Battalion, 71st Artillery (Taiwan) Association
		The 2nd Missile Battalion 71st Artillery (Nike Hercules), U.S. Army, deployed to defend Taipei, Taiwan against air attack and invasion during the Taiwan Straits Crisis in September 1958.
		The battalion was a fully self-supporting mobile Nike Hercules fighting force with both conventional and nuclear capability in SAM and SSM technology.
		As the crisis ground down and the PRC decide it was a bad idea to invade Taiwan, held by the ROC and defended by the United States, the 2/71st trained Chinese Army counterparts forming the 1st Missile Battalion Chinese Army.
	www.2-71adataiwan.com (281 words)

	Unit History
		uring the Cuban Missile crisis the first military units to hit the beach were not the Marines, they were the men of the Army Air Defense Battalions which manned Hawk Missile Batteries deployed there in October of 1962.
		Since each launcher held three Hawk missiles, there could be up to 72 missiles "locked and loaded" in Key West at any time, with many more in reserve, ready to be reloaded after the original missiles were fired.
		The roots of the Hawk system, include the development of advanced anti-aircraft weapon systems, America's rocket and missile development era, the mission to protect the continental United States from air attack, and the evolution of various organization commands, required to coordinate and accomplish the mission.
	www.aaonline.com /hawk/Unithistory.htm (1838 words)

	ph32
		After getting into the web and discovering there were Websites covering former Nike bases, I decided I had enough to put up a site about the Marlton base.
		Through the Web I was able to learn more about the subject of Nike Missiles in general.
		Thanks to this medium the history of the Nike program is being well documented.
	ph32.homestead.com /index.html (221 words)

	Site SF-88
		Click on "Links" to see our newest Nike partner.
		Please send your Nike Site web page info to webmaster@nikemissile.org to add your site.
		Alameda, CA Proceeds go to fund restoration projects at Nike Site Museums across the good ole' U.S. of A..
	www.nikemissile.org (105 words)

	Nike Brand - Links - Autumn Gallery Nike Brand Resource
		Nike Netball Club is one of the top netball clubs in Singapore.
		Nike Shoes Jordan Shoes Basketball Shoes from Nike Retro Shoes.
		Nike Shoes Jordan Shoes and Nike Basketball Shoes WWE Diva Stacy Keibler A wide selection of Nike basketball shoes and Jordan shoes from running shoes to Jordan Retro XI to Flightposite KG Olympic to Air Max 95.
	www.autumngallery.net /links_nikebrand.html (1072 words)

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