Engineers had been in earlier in the day to bleed the elevator locking bars which could only be accessed by cheating the system so the magazine doors would not open. Missile Tracking Radar-Nike-Ajax Mode 126 feet Target Tracking Radar-Wide Pulse Mode 230 feet Transmitting antennas in the non-scanning mode should not be positioned so as to radiate into areas occupied by passive antennas. Our team finished the second day with a perfect score, but the rest of our battery was just getting started. On top of it all the Germany police said your road permit just about out of time. the Improved Nike-Hercules radar antennas. Overview |
about being thrown from a moving Going to ag shack and meeting mister brown bear on the way or going to pick up mail from main post and getting run over by a moose in rut. There was an American with him in the barn at the time but didnt see him lock and load a round. Transmitting antennas in the non-scanning mode should not be Definitions |
Subject: Melting Waveguide During development the Air Force continued its Project Wizard while the Army started its Project Plato studies for dedicated anti-missile systems. Nuclear Missiles in Miami; ALASKA'S COLD WAR . has. fingers (fuel shortage had to MemoryLane |
The HIPAR was fired up and the rotation was locked with the antenna pointed at a certain point off the east coast. and a couple of guys nicknamed "Shaky" and "Blinky". truck breaking bone's (compound head wound from the fins (Crew The occasion was the national commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Defense Department. Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012. The fuselage had a bullet-like shape (SearsHaack body), but this was difficult to make out due to the presence of the four large delta wings running almost the entire length of the fuselage. Eventually we started seeing things that looked to be about an inch square and different lengths. PresentingSF-88L |
By 1959, Plato was still very much a paper project when news of large deployments of short-range missiles in the Warsaw Bloc became a clear threat. SF-87 |
The last active Nike Ajax batteries were relieved of their mission in December 1961, followed by the last Army National Guard unit in May 1964. LA-29 |
Interceptions with the Hercules system would typically start with targets being detected and identified on the HIPAR system, if this was in use. Missile Specificaitons The Hercules missile could travel 87 miles down range and 150,000 feet in altitude. Handling |
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We weren't sure what kind of treasure we had found but we started picking the stuff up and putting it in the jeeps. The TTR was operated by three operators (range, elevation and azimuth). Oozlefinch |
Our warhead team had the rest of the week to kill. C-4-44 |
Given the Nike warhead's relatively small lethal radius, if the missile flew into the middle of the formation and exploded, it would be highly unlikely to destroy any of the aircraft. Poor old 5 ton got run very hard that day. The other pit rat and myself rolled a round on the launcher and I performed the stray voltage check. Current Events |
To ensure the MTR could see and track the missile during its initial rapid ascent as it launched, the IFC was normally located about 1 mile (1.6km) from the "Launching Area" (LA). To operate the Nike Hercules system on the IFC the crew consisted of about nine operators under command of the Battery Control Officer (BCO). A nuclear weapons mishap occurred on January 17, 1966, over Palomares, Spain, when a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber and KC-135 tanker aircraft collided. Nice run in full gear. Then put it back in the barn. A discussion about veterans health. thing working a Nike site some Needless to say I quickly killed the transmitter. HM-69 |
Hercules was originally developed as a simple upgrade to the earlier MIM-3 Nike Ajax, allowing it to carry a nuclear warhead in order to defeat entire formations of high-altitude supersonic targets. Body parts sucked into cooling fans; We call these presumptive diseases. present along the axis of the transmitted beam at the following distances from R. . It was later revealed that only one of the sixty missiles at the site was actually functional at that time. As soon at the TTR was locked on to a target, an analog computer (later digital) continually computed a suitable intercept point in the sky and an expected 'time to fly' of the missile based on information from the TTR and basic performance information about the missile. The antenna was modified to give it the ability to see higher angles, while the Battery Control Console was upgraded with dual PPI displays for short- and long-range work, and the data link to the missile van was upgraded. and me the job of cleaning the cables in the Panel Room in B Section. Guestbook |
AttackonUSSR? Like almost any thorny military problem of the 1950s, the solution was the application of nuclear bombs. [9] Beginning around 1965, the number of Nike batteries was reduced. Reunions |
[11] This could be increased even further using stand-off missiles, like those currently under development by all of the nuclear-armed forces for just this reason. Testing was unexpectedly cancelled before the W-7 could be fired.[21]. project, after they rebuilt their antennas front end receiver! This was a common complaint by the Air Force, who noted that bombers had the ability to attack from as much as 50 miles (80km) while the Nike was only comfortable launching at about 25 miles (40km). PRP |
The resulting system used six semi-trailers: four to carry HIPAR electronic gear, one to carry the antenna, and one to carry the generators. LA-29 |
[30], The first EFS sets arrived at White Sands late in 1962 and started testing in April 1963. Based on the 'time to fly' of the missile this limited overall battery rates to about one launch every couple of minutes.[36]. [25], In early 1956, Bell began studies of the Improved Nike Hercules (INH) concept by considering the predicted threat for the 1960-65 period. Gilbert Burke |
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Subject: More dumb stuff, From: R. Alderson / SP5 The Hawk guys at MacGregor had their fun too. Germany 1961 - 62: On hot status and sleeping in the panel room, mice and rats nibbling on our snacks and at times the ears of the crewman. The last Hercules missiles were deactivated in Europe in 1988, without ever being fired in a military conflict. Lucky it was an H.E.). This, in turn, required a much larger booster to loft it, but this was solved by strapping together four of the existing Nike boosters to form a cluster known as the XM-42, with the only modification to the original M5 engine design being the addition of new holes to bolt them together, creating the M5E. The adaption kit, xm75e1, which adapted the w31 warhead to the nike missile, was unpackaged and bolted to the forward end of the warhead (now a part of the missile). 16-18. History |
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Klystron tube going "real" bad! Any vets The resulting reflections may present a potential hazard to personnel working in the vicinity of the passive antennas. In March 2016, the Department of the Army Veterans' Radiation Exposure Program at the Army Public Health Center provided VA with a report after evaluating the appellant's records. A nuclear weapons mishap occurred on January 17, 1966, over Palomares, Spain, when a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber and KC-135 tanker aircraft collided. being the MP whom was moving the About |
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rapidly diminishes as the distance is increased. Ionizing Radiation Veterans may have been exposed to ionizing radiation during military service if, for example, they participated in nuclear weapons testing. He opened up the escape hatch door to ventilate the panel room and made us get out of the launching area for the rest of the day. These changes were presented on 24 August 1956, and accepted by both CONARC and ARADCOM. Over its lifetime, significant effort was put into the development of solid state replacements for the vacuum tube-based electronics inherited from the early-1950s Ajax, and a variety of mobile options. IrwinAnger |
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This happened to a 16B [26] Engineering was complete in 1958 and entered low-rate production in May 1959. [9]:63, In the aftermath of the Hercules/BOMARC debates, retired Army Brigadier General Thomas R. Phillips wrote an article for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that BOMARC and SAGE had been the "most costly waste of funds in the history of the Defense Department. 126 feet, Target Tracking Chair Nor did it stop the fighting in the press. Passenger gets a free ride to the hospital at Spangdahlem for X-rays and stitches, first prize for flying through the air like a missile- head first from tailgate to spare tire rim on back of cab. someone (people) is down range, Rebuilding berms and equipment Sometime later our site was called up as we were the backup battery. The AN/MPQ-43 Mobile HIPAR was made part of Hercules Standard A in August 1966 and began operational deployment in Europe on 12 April 1967.[33]. U.S.targets |
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16B goes nuts in a guard tower 30 feet high with an M16A1 and 180 rounds of ammo, with a gas mask. while on field exercises in the Cold Reunions |
When the TTR and MTR radars were locked, the computer had a firing solution and the missile reported active, the LA lamp changed from amber to green, indicating the ability to fire. cancers of the bile ducts, bone, brain, breast, colon, esophagus, gall bladder, liver (primary site, but not if cirrhosis or hepatitis b is indicated), lung (including. [24], Even before deployment of Hercules began, studies on improvements to the system had been identified. HerculesMissile |
Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) B-21DC established at Fort Heath, MA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. Similar articles began appearing in papers around the country, invariably just before that city was to begin receiving their missiles. [28] HIPAR was a large system and generally deployed under a dome on top of a concrete platform that raised it above any local obstructions. Niagara-Buffalo |
Anyway, Google searches show me that I'm not the only "missile jockey" (Nike Hercules) to be diagnosed with PTC later in life. Second lt. were probably the most dangerous, trying to convince everyone they knew it all but they were just getting started. In addition, the policy prescribes planning, coordination, security, dosimetry, recordkeeping, training, equipment, and expertise to deal with radiological hazards. One morning we ran the HIPAR antennas up into position and all the interlock lights lit so I lit up the transmitter and suddenly every neon lamp in the ACQ van starts flashing on and off which I quickly realized was in time with the antenna rotation. 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