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Nike-Hercules system's reliance on ground-based radar to track tar-gets and to guide missiles to an interception, this was an important finding. To: [email protected] someone (people) is down range, Rebuilding berms and equipment During an alert, the site would go on "blue alert", at which time the LA crew would arm and erect the missiles and then retreat to safety. The last Hercules missile was launched in the Sardinian range of Capo San Lorenzo in Italy on November 24, 2006.[34]. Prior to launch, the Missile Tracking Radar (MTR) locked on to the transponder in the selected missile. Ordnance | TerryFetterman | Faulty solid fuel flamed out about 500' after launch, separated from second stage and then reignited and slammed into the second stage. 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. Length 45 feet, Diameter 32 inches : Two Stage : Four 8" diameter 105,000 Newton-Second "Q" motors in the booster : Staging to one 12" diameter 400,000 Newton-Second "S" motor in the sustainer. I proceeded with the test at 3 AM. To entertain ourselves we went to the motor pool and checked out some jeeps. Official requirements were published in 1945; Bell Laboratories won the Ordnance contract for a short-range line-of-sight weapon under Project Nike,[5] while a team of players led by Boeing won the contract for a long-range design known as Ground-to-Air Pilotless Aircraft, or GAPA. Patriot's much higher accuracy allowed it to dispense with the nuclear warhead, and Hercules was the last US SAM to use this option. head wound from the fins (Crew Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) B-21DC established at Fort Heath, MA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. going out to the RF Test Set. Trophy | New to the Hercules system was the Target Ranging Radar, or TRR. Security | HM-69 | Like the Germans and British before them, they concluded the only successful defence would be to use guided weapons.[5]. with gas masks and running through Four Nike batteries were normally organized into a single battalion.[36]. An armed Nike Hercules falling into an Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 6:39:30 PM I just returned from the seattle va hospital and i am now on the va health registry for occupational exposure of a us veteran during military service with the hawk ada missile system. MPs an 16Bs (most sites), Down 126 feet, Target Tracking open pit. As the larger Hercules would be easier to adapt to a longer-range form, the Army selected it as the winning design. The best I remember they were kind of amber in color and a little translucent. To address this whole range of issues, Bell proposed a series of changes:[26]. About | Relive & share the memories of your service time with your brothers & sisters in arms today. Chair [36] The firing or launch command was given manually by the Battery Control Officer based on orders or Rules of Engagements. [6]:20, In 1953, Project Nike delivered the world's first operational anti-aircraft missile system, known simply as Nike. Once a target was found on the LOPAR, it could be identified with aid of an Identification friend or foe system. Budgetary cuts reduced that number to 87 in 1968, and 82 in 1969. One year I was on the warhead team. Nike was initially deployed at military bases starting in 1953, especially Strategic Air Command bomber airfields, and general deployment then followed at US cities, important industrial sites, and then overseas bases. PatrickMackay | This information is base upon the average power outputs and The From: Emmett R. Caraker Jr. "[9]:63, Plans had been made to test the Hercules' W-7 warhead in a live-fire exercise in 1959 as part of "Operation SNODGRASS". R. . Harold Stanford | The original Ajax detection radar retroactively became known as LOPAR, and remained in use as the main target selection radar in the missile control van. Nike Hercules was included in SALT I discussions as an ABM. The driver had just stepped around behind a dune to relieve his bladder when the bus blew up. NY53 | The problem was the missile launcher itself, and especially the large HIPAR radar, which presented a formidable mobility problem. DISTANCE, AJI High Power Having to disarm the warhead Murray Hill was across from our Hipar about 600 yards on the next hill with a perfect line of sight to the HIPAR when locked down for the test! [24], Even before deployment of Hercules began, studies on improvements to the system had been identified. Watching 2 MIG's fly over the Exclusion Area and buzz the tower, while tailed by 2 Tornado's (Italy). The TRR system combatted this by allowing switching between two very different set of frequencies. Service personnel records show that the Veteran spent most of his active duty service at the Nike missile battery in Milwaukee. IRBMs and ICBMs were also a consideration, but these were being addressed by the Nike Zeus concept, leaving only short-range weapons as an issue Hercules might need to address. 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. We looked everywhere for the slug and SASCOM came in to search for it too. HM-69 | Can you say Asbestos time it was only 1974. LA-43 | About | However, the lower specific impulse of these engines, combined with the requirement for longer range, demanded a much larger fuselage to store the required fuel. The TRR was operated by the track supervisor. He was playing with the seal on his clip and broke it. Dogs constantly getting bit by snakes while on patrol. Ionizing radiation is defined by the va as atmospheric nuclear weapon exposure, particle radiation, i.e., nuclear waste disposal and dirty bomb attacks. Think of being in the worlds biggest microwave oven, ouch! Sticking a test probe NY53 | LaunchSet | The Nike Hercules was a command-guided, long-range, high-altitude anti-aircraft missile. Lucky it was an H.E.). AirDefense | A test against the much higher performance Pershing was carried out on 16 October 1963, and while the HIPAR was able to detect the missile, the tracking system was unable to track it. WilliamJ.Auell | Guy in the IFC gets Dear John letter go nuts, sent him to the hospital. [21], The AMMO shot took place on 1 July 1958, successfully intercepting a simulated 650-knot (750mph; 1,200km/h) target flying at an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,000m) and a slant range of 79 miles (69nmi; 127km). This was my first time doing this test. Radar-Non-scanning [9] It was normally deployed in fixed bases with a central radar and control site (Integrated Fire Control area or IFC) separated from the launcher area (LA). We were short mechanics so we were working 24 hours on and 24 off. The mishap led to the release of four nuclear weapons. [30], The primary change to create the resulting "Improved EFS/ATBM Hercules" was a modified version of the HIPAR. Like the Ajax, the Hercules used a transponder in the missile. Gilbert Burke | against the dome door zippers - unconscious. Although it was officially one of the Operation Fishbowl tests, it is . Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 I have an interesting story about a Belgian security guard fireing his Thompson sub-machine gun inside one of our barns with 8 nukes inside. Dogs | Boss said it couldn't be done, we said give us 2 weeks, we ran into a little trouble acquiring a power converter that we could operate off the tank system to power the radar. During development the Air Force continued its Project Wizard while the Army started its Project Plato studies for dedicated anti-missile systems. Safety officer blew it before it crossed into Mexico. SF-87 | It was a very angry civilian screaming that we were melting the front end of his receiver: puddles of brass waveguide! Harold Stanford | Prior to assuming hot status we had to run a drill. (everyone), Working down range at night and Germany 1962: Performing maintenance on the racks in the Missile Storage Building, with overhead doors closed, crossing from one side to the other I swung the gate towards the overhead door and there was an electric arc from the door to the racks. Handling | 60 feet, Low Power Acquisition although not considered potentially hazardous, is stipulated by AR 40-583 as the the body tissues. Two of the weapons were damaged when they hit the ground and released plutonium, a radioactive material. 145 missile batteries were deployed during the cold war. The TTR was operated by three operators (range, elevation and azimuth). the vicinity of the passive antennas. I have been wanting to put in my two cents about the dangers on Nike sites. Beginning in FY 1961 the older warheads were replaced by W-31 Mod 0 warheads, with yields of 2 kt (Y1) or 30 kt (Y2). However, as rumours of a ban on atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons spread, SNODGRASS became a crash project to be completed before 1 September 1958 at any available site the Nevada Test Site was fully booked with the existing Project AMMO testing series. Pittsburgh | BudHalsey | One launch the missile didn't detect the radar when it went up through the beam but did when it fell back through igniting just before it hit the ground. Reunions | Subject: Nike Herc night time thriller. At MA+4 the missile self destructed when it failed to detect the MTR. Eventually we started seeing things that looked to be about an inch square and different lengths. Early deployments starting in 1958 were on new sites, but Ajax units started converting as well. The location was downtown Huntsville, Alabama. Alligator poachers spotlighting our sentry dogs at A252 in the Everglades, Cottonmouth and rattlesnakes between the security fences, Rats scrounging for dog food in the kennel shacks, Snakes crawling on window awnings at night, feeding on the insects that were drawn to the lights, Alligators running across the road at nightin front of motorcycles. C-50 | Information from the MTR and TTR continued to be fed to the computer for updating the intercept point based on any actual changes in either the missile or the target location, speed or direction. The MTR was operated by one operator. Dogs | [N 1] A larger Nike with greatly improved range would not only help address this sort of attack, but also allow a single base to defend a much larger area, lowering the overall costs of deploying a widespread defensive system. Posterior subcapsular cataracts. The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center. Definitions | LaunchEquipment | [4], During World War II, the US Army Air Force (USAAF) concluded that existing anti-aircraft guns, only marginally effective against existing generations of propeller-driven aircraft, would not be effective at all against the emerging jet-powered designs. Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 Sent him to the hospital. Cold War Missiles in Miami | How Back at Redstone School: Having my tech override rotation on the acquisition radar and use it to kill birds in the trees. The mishap led to the release of four nuclear weapons. the equipment vans should be prohibited during periods of radar operation. List, by MOS, of likely extent of exposure to asbestos. BatteryAirlift | At the same time, there were increasing concerns that higher speed aircraft would be able to launch their warheads at the extreme range of the Nike bases. 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). Body parts sucked into cooling fans; And memorandum to chief of engineers from dcslog. Alaska | It seeks to avoid unnecessary radiation exposure whenever possible and to minimize doses when exposure is unavoidable. The changes were designed to be upgradable without major changes to the deployed system the TTR/MTR could be replaced at any time, the HIPAR used its own displays and therefore required no changes in the missile launch equipment, the TRR was slaved to the TTR and simply updated range readings, and the new seeker could be retrofitted at any time. The first Nike Ajax missile site became operational at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1954. We went to SNAP. Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012. Carl Durling C-2-52 1961-62: positioned so as to radiate into areas occupied by passive antennas. [9]:57. Reunions; Current Events; Cold War. TestEquipment | War Veterans Assc. It was quite a bit bigger than the Nike Ajax launcher and it weighed about 7 tons. As Hercules had evolved from the fixed-base Ajax system, early deployments offered no mobility. When the intensity is high, the radiation may produce enough heat to damage the tissues permanently. Radio-frequency radiations from radar antennas and associated Granted sovereignty to the marshall islands, including bikini, in the 1980s. I just returned from the seattle va hospital and i am now on the va health registry for occupational exposure of a us veteran during military service with the hawk ada missile system. I just returned from the seattle va hospital and i am now on the va health registry for occupational exposure of a us veteran during military service with the hawk ada missile system. Overview | Subject: Nike Site Dangers (UNCLASSIFIED) A discussion about veterans health. My MOS was 22f20 Nike electronic maintenance and warhead specialist. In one Redeye shoulder launch test there was a fault in the software that caused the missile to lock full left if it failed to acquire a hot target. Maintenance | LaunchSet | Precautions should be taken to insure that personnel are not exposed Servicemembers in these occupations receive special training and are monitored to ensure radiation exposure remains at safe levels. I am so proud to have been a part it all. currents, arming magnetos, pissed off attack dogs, rifles and handguns, Date: Thursday, 19 December 2013. Spec.-5 Emmett R. Caraker Jr. Two of the weapons were damaged when they hit the ground and released plutonium, a radioactive material. F16 buzz the IFC so the IFC made the F16 light come on (lock on the F16). They saw this as an extension of the Army's existing "point defence" role, and as a valuable backup to their own manned interceptors. Hercules | Handling | Radar-Wide Pulse Mode [11], Things changed dramatically with the development of Hercules. RockyStovall | The resulting system used six semi-trailers: four to carry HIPAR electronic gear, one to carry the antenna, and one to carry the generators. Current Events | [18][19] The resulting flap led to calls for Nickerson to be court-martialed and was compared to the Billy Mitchell court-martial in the 1920s. They split development between the Army Air Force or the Ordnance Department based on whether or not the design "depend[ed] for sustenance primarily on the lift of aerodynamic forces" or "primary on the momentum of the missile". HerculesMissile | The Hercules system was compared to threats ranging from the relatively short-range Little John, Honest John and Lacrosse through medium-range systems like Corporal, Sergeant and Lance, and finally the long-range (for battlefield concerns) 200mi (320km) Redstone. All CONUS Hercules batteries, with the exception of the ones in Florida and Alaska, were deactivated by April 1974. Approximately 25,000 Nike Hercules were manufactured. and me the job of cleaning the cables in the Panel Room in B Section. fields. range water so polluted sends MPs Use of Trichlorethelene: I can remember when I was an E-2 or PFC at Site SF-88. [31][32] In spite of this success, the GOER-based Hercules would not be used operationally. Unzipping the door on the TTR radome only Links | 7384L (14)) To increase range, the missile was normally boosted above the target into the thinner air and then descended on it in a gliding dive. Soon after design work started, the Army requested that the existing liquid fuel engine be replaced with a solid fuel design, for a variety of reasons. [23] The first deployments in Europe began in 1959. 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. Engineers continued work on getting a second missile operational at McGuire, but the Air Force went ahead with plans to open the Suffolk County Missile Annex by 1 January 1960. Murray Hill is where all the AT&T antenna experiments took place. Niagara-Buffalo | The booster was formed from four of the earlier Ajax M5E1 boosters held together in a frame. No damage. 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. U.S.targets | 2 people pulling/pushing by hand a 10,710 pound missile to a launcher. Health | The WX-9, like all gun-type designs, was long and thin, originally designed to be fired from an 11in (280mm) artillery piece, and easily fit within the Nike fuselage. There was a 5-second allowance for the missile to launch, if it failed to do so it was marked "rejected" and another missile selected. Apparently they had gotten tired of swimming. It is relatively easy to jam range information on monopulse radars like the TTR by sending out false return signals. LauncherArea | The occasion was the national commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the defense department. Radiation at the test site was. AttackonUSSR? It was normally armed with the W31 nuclear warhead, but could also be fitted with a conventional warhead for export use. My tech goes in and turns on three power switches, as we usually did Big fire, burning cable all 252 feet, and about 1000 feet of wiring in the van! SF-51 | The LA also had a control van to control and monitor the LA activities and maintenance facilities. [36], The entire sequence of events from decision to launch to actual launch normally took about 36 seconds. HIPAR would detect targets separately and "hand off" to the LOPAR and TTR so those systems could remain largely unchanged and able to launch either Hercules or Ajax. SF-87 | I never heard a word about the test again. to find the rookie down in the van has the antenna pointed at you and it's on. [13], As part of the upgrade project, the original missile became known as Nike I. Had a medic but he had nothing to help with not even an aspirin. [1]:52[verification needed][39] The last versions carried the W31 Mod 2 warhead, with yields of 2 or 20 kt. MS-70 | snow on the ground, Cleaning the the red juice from control section of a Nike because the "inflight repairman" did not properly safety wire the HPU that you were performing a test on (I should have checked his work), Getting arrested and thrown into jail in Juarez. The Hawk guys at MacGregor had their fun too. Similar experiments for Hercules boosters led to the XM-61 single-chamber booster, but when the XM-42 cluster proved to be even less expensive than expected, this effort was also dropped. Home | Testing of the W-7 was put into AMMO, while the SNODGRASS series was moved to an Army-Air Force test at Eglin Air Force Base with tests of both the conventional T45 and nuclear W-7 warheads. desert north of Fort Bliss. Then put it back in the barn. I was at Delta Team 43rd Artillary with our headquarters in Duran. On 15 November 1956, the new missile was officially renamed as the Nike Hercules, as part of DA Circular 700-22, while the Nike I becoming Nike Ajax. Falling down the ladder leading to the BaseTuono | IrwinAnger | Tom Cluff | driving jeeps. NoSleep | Eating C rations dated 1958 ( it was 1973) and 1948 (it was 1974). Eating out of marmite cans 2 times a day every other day for years. Still at Redstone: Having a generator mechanic switch out generators and not have it in phase with the other generator running to the van. Panel Room, before they installed stairs. I called the number at 2:45 AM and got no answer (this was before answering machines). [29] FABMDS would have performance against any credible "theatre" ranged missile or rocket system, as well as offer anti-aircraft capabilities, the ability to attack four targets at once, and be relatively mobile. Unfortunately the engineers had failed to remove the cheater cable which prevented the doors from opening. [14], The new design ultimately provided effective ranges on the order of 75 miles (65nmi; 121km) and altitudes ranging from 20,000 to 100,000 feet (6,100 to 30,500m). Non-malignant thyroid nodular disease. Browse 36 nike hercules missile stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Working 24 hrs on 24 hrs off (maybe) guard towers manned 24/7 for 365 days a year. Plato was cancelled in February 1959, replaced in the short term by further upgrades to Hercules, and in the longer term by the FABMDS program. MS-70 | Although Hercules had demonstrated its ability to successfully engage short-range missiles, the capability was not considered very important. Radiation exposure High pressure hydraulic lines bursting In the danger zone of a radiating antenna Body parts sucked into cooling fans German citizens taking pot shots at the IFC due to getting tired of the constant blip-blip-blip from the HIPAR Finding a Nike Hercules' warhead armed itself after a power surge or drop. Subject: THULE Greenland. Thanks to the good folks at the Redstone airfield, while they weren't looking, it only took 3 weeks before we had an operating radar. Nike Hercules after take-off at NATO Missile Firing Installation in Greece, Dutch Nike site in West Germany (note the above ground storage shelter), MIM-14 Nike-H missile at Okinawa, June 1967, Battery Control Officer operating position with the acquisition radar operator on the left and the computer operator on the right. Nice run in full gear. On top of it all the Germany police said your road permit just about out of time. The Best Nike Hercules Missile Radiation Exposure 2022, Awasome When Was The Last Time North Korea Tested A Missile Ideas, The Best Cuban Missile Crisis Ice Crusade Ideas, Awasome Can The Us Shoot Down Russian Nuclear Missiles Ideas, Awasome Cuban Missile Crisis John F Kennedy References. [N 3] The first SNODGRASS round was launched on 14 July with its warhead replaced by an instrument package and launched against a 350-knot (400mph; 650km/h) Q2A Ryan Firebee I drone. The resulting reflections may present a potential hazard to personnel working in the vicinity of the passive antennas. present along the axis of the transmitted beam at the following distances from During the last years of their deployment in Europe, the issue at hand was more about maintaining security of the nuclear capable missiles, rather than mobility. C-4-44 | LA-29 | Date: Fri, 15 May 2015, From: Don Mullis fragments moving same war head Here are some dangers I encountered, some are just plain stupidity. The Starfish Prime radiation belt persisted at high altitude for many months and damaged the United States satellites Traac, Transit 4B, Injun I and Telstar I, . To provide the same range of view, the tracking radars were also often placed on concrete platforms of their own, although these were much smaller. I know.. it's not possible.right. Nor did it stop the fighting in the press. C-50 | C-4-44 | Tumors of the brain and central nervous system. 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. While I was in his office, the base commander telephoned the civilian. [5] Nike tracked both the target and the missile using separate radars, compared the locations in a computer, and sent commands to the missile to fly to a point in the sky to intercept the target. Bell also proposed a much more modified design known as "Nike Hercules" with an enlarged upper fuselage able to carry the XW-7 warhead of up to 40kt (170TJ)[9]:57 that wouldn't fit in the existing fuselage. 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