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Former Nike Missle Base site and WWII Prisoner of War Camp(en)USA / Illinois / Arlington_Heights military, missle, pow
Former site of the Summit NJ Nike Battery NY-73(en)USA / New_Jersey / New_Providence (Summit, NJ)military, war, misslealpha.fdu.edu/~bender/NY73.html
Missile Assembly Building(en)USA / California / Rancho_Palos_Verdes (Los Angeles)missiles, nike, interesting placeNike missiles were once wheeled into this building for assembly and regular maintenance.
Old Nike Missile Site(en)USA / Pennsylvania / Municipality_of_Monroeville militaryDefended us by deterrence for a few decades in the 50s-60s. Now decommissioned and turned into a neighborhood (construction visible). The old barracks are used as homes along the north of the base.
Old Nike Missile Barracks(en)USA / Pennsylvania / Municipality_of_Monroeville militaryNow regular, albeit crappy and old, homes.
Nike Market, Yamashina(en)Japan / Shiga / Otsu (Kyoto)marketplace
Hawk Hill/Nike SF-87C (site)(en)USA / California / Sausalito historic, fortification, nike, raptor, interesting placeThe former Integrated Fire Control (IFC) section for Nike battery SF-87. Several acquisition and tracking radar antennas were located here, and they were used to scan the skies for incoming enemy aircraft. SF-87's launch area is currently being used by
Radar antenna platform(en)USA / California / Sausalito barry, fortification, nike, missile, marin, headlands, interesting placeThis steel tower once supported a AN/FPS-75 ABAR (Alternate Battery Acquisitional Radar) antenna. The concrete pads for other acquisitional radar antennas are located nearby.
SF-88L Magazines(en)USA / California / Sausalito military, historic, nike, interesting placeWithin this gated security area are the eight above ground launchers of SF-88L. They are arrayed on two lines of four launchers each. The launchers are connected by rails. The individual launchers are the base from which the missiles are
Sentry Box(en)USA / California / Tamalpais-Homestead_Valley nike, missile, interesting placeThe integrated fire control area of each Nike missile battery was a secure area surrounded by a barbed wire fence and guarded by armed sentries 24-hours a day. This gate is the only road access to the site, and the
HIPAR Antenna(en)USA / California / Tamalpais-Homestead_Valley radar, antenna, nike, missile, interesting placeOn this site, the high-power acquisition radar (HIPAR) was once located. This HIPAR radar scanned the horizon out to a horizontal range of over 100 nautical miles and up to a vertical range (altitude) of over 148,000 feet (over 28
HIPAR Building(en)USA / California / Tamalpais-Homestead_Valley nike, missile, interesting placeThe remains of the HIPAR building stand today stripped of the electrical and data controls and wires that once were in the building. Once, a mass of electrical consoles, generators and wires were housed here, and this was the "nerve
Target Tracking Radar(en)USA / California / Tamalpais-Homestead_Valley radar, nike, missile, interesting placeOn top the this tower found here, a target-tracking radar under a geodesic dome operated as part of the control system of the Nike guided missile battery. After a target had been located by the acquisition radars, it was passed
Target-Recognition/Tracking Radar(en)USA / California / Tamalpais-Homestead_Valley radar, nike, missile, interesting placeed-thelen.org/t_ifc_map.html
Concrete Pad(en)USA / California / Tamalpais-Homestead_Valley nike, missile, interesting placeThe Nike anti-aircraft guided missile system was designed to be a mobile system. All of its components were fully-transportable by vehicle, and, at least theoretically, they could be set up any place. In and around cities of the United States,
Missile Tracking Radar(en)USA / California / Tamalpais-Homestead_Valley radar, nike, missile, interesting placeTo complete the system of Nike antiaircraft missile radars, there was a radar that tracked and guided the missile after it had been fired. Electronically, data were transmitted through this radar. ed-thelen.org/t_ifc_map.html ed-thelen.org/ifc_track.html#mtr
New Acquisition Radar(en)USA / California / Tamalpais-Homestead_Valley radar, nike, missile, interesting placeWhen the Nike Hercules system replaced the original Nike Ajax system in the 1960's, many of the old Nike radars were retained and used in the new system. However, to improve the horizontal range and altitude capability of the Nike
Pad(en)USA / California / Tamalpais-Homestead_Valley fortification, nike, missile, cronkhite, interesting placeed-thelen.org/t_ifc_map.html -- "This is another concrete pad used as a place to park the battery's control vans."
ICC Building(en)USA / California / Tamalpais-Homestead_Valley nike, missile, interesting placeThe integrated control center (ICC) was the "heart" and "brains" of the Nike system. Here, many of the communications, radar and control consoles that actually operated the system were housed. Once, this building was filled with wires, computers and consoles,
Pads for the Control Vans(en)USA / California / Tamalpais-Homestead_Valley nike, missile, interesting placeAs mentioned previously, the Nike anti-aircraft guided missile system was a mobile, vehicular-mounted system with much of the unit's equipment operating from vans. When a permanent building such as the ICC building was available, a lot of the equipment was
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