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  2. List of Nike missile sites - Wikipedia

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    After the phase-out of the Nike Ajax system, sites B-05, B-36, and B-73 remained supplied with Hercules missiles. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) B-21DC established at Fort Heath, MA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center.

  3. 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 ...

  4. War Remnants Museum - Wikipedia

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    Visitors. approx. 500,000/year (2009) Owner. Government of Vietnam. The War Remnants Museum ( Vietnamese: Bảo tàng chứng tích chiến tranh) is a war museum at 28 Vo Van Tan, in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam. It contains exhibits relating to the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War .

  5. 'Last line of defense': Cold War reheats at Nike missile ...

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    A group of Army veterans are running a recently opened museum dedicated to the Nike missile program and restoring a Nike Ajax missile for it. All the veterans worked on the restoration of the area ...

  6. Nike Missile Site C-47 - Wikipedia

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    Added to NRHP. January 21, 2000. 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. Nike missiles were radar guided, supersonic antiaircraft missiles. The planners hoped that Nike would make a direct attack on the U.S. so costly as to be futile.

  7. Nike Hercules - Wikipedia

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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 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.

  8. National Museum of the Marine Corps - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .usmcmuseum .com. The National Museum of the Marine Corps is the historical museum of the United States Marine Corps. Located in Triangle, Virginia near Marine Corps Base Quantico, the museum opened on November 10, 2006, and is now one of the top tourist attractions in the state, drawing over 500,000 people annually.

  9. Merrifield, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Merrifield is located in eastern Fairfax County at 38°52′23″N 77°14′35″W (38.873144, −77.242994). [ 4] It is bounded by I-66 on the north, the Capital Beltway on the east, Arlington Boulevard ( U.S. Route 50) on the south, and Nutley Street ( Virginia State Highway 243) on the west.