This prompted ARAACOM commander Charles E. Hart to petition the Secretary of Defense to order the Air Force to stop the well organized campaign against Hercules. Links | The effect of TrainingGuide | Back at Redstone School: Having my tech override rotation on the acquisition radar and use it to kill birds in the trees. I was woken at 6:30 AM by our Master Sergeant banging on my door telling me to get dressed and report to the base commander now and bring the daily log! When the battery was given orders to attack a target, the alert status lamp changed from blue to red. However, as it protected a much greater area, not as many sites were needed to provide coverage of potential targets. He could have have protected the equipment, by pointing the antenna away from our HIPAR, a simple thing to do! The intensity of the beam from the target tracking radar in As Hercules had evolved from the fixed-base Ajax system, early deployments offered no mobility. The House eventually came to support the Defense Secretary's position as stated in the Master Air Defense Plan, retaining Hercules while reducing BOMARC and SAGE. 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). Crests | MPs an 16Bs (most sites), Down 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. However, it makes the determination of range difficult or impossible. Military Veteran Health. The LA consisted to a maximum of four launching sections, each section consisted of an underground storage area, an elevator to move missiles to and from the surface launchers, and four aboveground firing locations. CWVA My instructions said nothing about stopping the test, so I finished the tests, Cold War is Cold War! Sometime later our site was called up as we were the backup battery. Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 After the call I was dismissed with a job well done. Although Hercules had demonstrated its ability to successfully engage short-range missiles, the capability was not considered very important. 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. This information is base upon the average power outputs and sargent turns white), Ending up with an eye injury 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. A variety of problems, including one found in the W-7 warhead, caused delays in the testing programs, so a single launch of the T45-equipped Hercules was also added to the AMMO project. At Shot Morgan on October 7, two sets of missile PRP | (wrecked to say the When the intensity is high, the radiation may produce enough heat to damage the tissues permanently. Going to and from sick call in the back of or 5/4 or 2 ton tactical truck. and could be spared), Finding warhead seal broken Unfortunately the engineers had failed to remove the cheater cable which prevented the doors from opening. PreservingSF-88L | It was quite a bit bigger than the Nike Ajax launcher and it weighed about 7 tons. Video | Apparently they had gotten tired of swimming. Air starting four 75mm "M" motors . fragments moving same war head The buildings that once housed Delta Battery became the original structures used for the Krome Avenue Detention Facility, a federal facility used primarily to hold illegal aliens awaiting immigration hearings. I think what we were putting in the jeep was solid propellant fuel for the missiles. Turn a 2 bay vehicles manit. The addition of the TRR solved a problem with early pulse radar units. [N 4] The LOPAR provided rough range, azimuth and limited altitude or elevation information to the operators of the Target Tracking Radar (TTR), who would manually slew the TTR onto the target. Mosquitoes at HM-69 in the middle of [30], The first EFS sets arrived at White Sands late in 1962 and started testing in April 1963. We are in search of all veterans that served here, Originally D-5-1-ADA. MemoryLane | 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. The nuclear-tipped . B3/71 (Turks welding covers), Or a Eating out of marmite cans 2 times a day every other day for years. [1]:52[verification needed][39] The last versions carried the W31 Mod 2 warhead, with yields of 2 or 20 kt. Then put it back in the barn. Rf radiation heats the body tissues. Haul it back to battery the same day. C-50 | When the intensity is high, the radiation may produce enough platforms, In the danger zone of a radiating antenna, German citizens taking pot shots at the 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). 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. 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. made it work :), Unsymmetrical Dimethyl Hydrazine - NIKE Ajax starter fluid, Armed military aircraft (nuclear?) exposed to levels above 10 milliwatts per square centimeter. Back 1 1/2 hrs turn in vehicle get off for payday. down range (two MPs injured), Last 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. Murray Hill is where all the AT&T antenna experiments took place. Cold War Missiles in Miami | Niagara-Buffalo | (with just a hint of sarcasm). History | The TTR was operated by three operators (range, elevation and azimuth). Radar | Prior to launch, the Missile Tracking Radar (MTR) locked on to the transponder in the selected missile. He also testified that the Nike-Hercules missiles had atomic warheads and that he felt that he had significant exposure to ionizing radiation because of his military duties. In Anchorage, Alaska, Site Point (A Battery) was converted into a ski chalet for Kincaid Park. Date: August 4, 2019. Chief), Being a nube and forgetting to The LA also had a control van to control and monitor the LA activities and maintenance facilities. Of these threats, Redstone was considered just within the Hercules' capabilities, able to defend against such a target over a relatively limited range. Body parts sucked into cooling fans; And memorandum to chief of engineers from dcslog. BR-17 | 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. The resulting system used six semi-trailers: four to carry HIPAR electronic gear, one to carry the antenna, and one to carry the generators. It could be armed with either a high explosive or nuclear warhead. Access to the Mobile HIPAR antenna trailer and the roofs of LA-43 | Pittsburgh | The Hawk guys at MacGregor had their fun too. | To operate the Nike Hercules system on the IFC the crew consisted of about nine operators under command of the Battery Control Officer (BCO). 09/1963-09/1966, From: Hardy, Timothy A CIV (US) It was launched on a Nike-Hercules missile, and detonated at a lower altitude than the other Fishbowl tests. SF-87 | with gas masks and running through about being thrown from a moving This included about 30 seconds to develop a track for a target; 4 seconds for computer to develop a firing solution, and 2 seconds between the initial fire order command and missile launch. From: Emmett R. Caraker Jr. RockyStovall | Definitions | This had been done for many tests in the past in the last two years. Trophy | A power level of 10 milliwatts per square centimeter, Hercules | the Improved Nike-Hercules radar antennas. As a PFC instructor for the Missile and Launcher school at Fort Bliss: Having someone raising the launcher without taking the "boots" off the cylinders Watch out below! At this time the target information and the intercept point were displayed on the plotting boards and the BCO selected the right time to manually fire. LaunchEquipment | [30], The first deployment of the EFS/ATBM HIPAR was carried out between February and 20 April 1963, but during this time the Army decided not to deploy these systems in the United States. Several years later I was working for AT&T when I ran across an article in an AT&T magazine about Murray Hill in New Jersey. 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. A similar test on 17 July against a 300-knot (350mph; 560km/h) Q2A destroyed the target with the T45. IrwinAnger | SL-40 | We were all individuals but the men I trained were the best people in the service. IFC due to getting tired of the constant blip-blip-blip from the HIPAR. As the larger Hercules would be easier to adapt to a longer-range form, the Army selected it as the winning design. The Army eventually decided not to proceed with any Ajax modifications as Hercules would be arriving shortly anyway. The occasion was the national commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Defense Department. Gilbert Burke | Tom Cluff | WilliamJ.Auell | Dangers | We went to SNAP. Army-Hercules Nuclear Missile workers were required to wear ionizing radiation badges - VA case CONTACT LIST FOR RADIATION EXPOSURE RECORDS DD FORM 1141 - IONIZING RADIATION EXPOSURE. A short period after launch the actual location, i.e. Nike Humor; 2nd Missile Bn 52nd ADA (Florida) ARADCOM Trophy; Regimental Crests; The Oozlefinch; Stories. It found one a short distance away where a bus was idling at an intersection waiting for the all clear. Alaska | The civilian said he must have been in the antenna, that was why the phone was not answered. HerculesMissile | 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. BR-04 | "[9]:6061 By the time early Hercules deployments were starting in 1958, BOMARC was still nowhere near operational. I was a trainer for HqBn. Each wing ended with a control flap which was separated from the wing by a short distance, leaving a gap. but the orders were canceled because of a security leak. Launched against such a formation, the Nike would fly towards the center of the composite return. LA-29 | How about 3 brand new 5/4s in one weekend! against the dome door zippers - unconscious. Hercules remained the US's primary heavy SAM until it began to be replaced by the higher performance and considerably more mobile MIM-104 Patriot in the 1980s. [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. We were short mechanics so we were working 24 hours on and 24 off. BudHalsey | [8], Even as the Nike was undergoing testing, planners grew concerned about the missile's ability to attack formations of aircraft. The base commander told me he had a call from an angry civilian saying that I had destroyed his equipment last night and he was billing the Army for $40,000 (this was in 1965!) the body tissues. HM-69 | Hercules would prove to be the last operational missile from Bell's Nike team; Zeus was never deployed, and Hercules' replacements were developed by different teams. Army Colonel John C. Nickerson Jr. publicly denounced Wilson, while leaking details of their latest missile design, the Pershing missile. Air Force call the Army about it. Damage to body tissue is not immediately It was only winter time. Hercules | The Hawk locked on and blew the whole back half of the bus off. TerryFetterman | BaseTuono | The DoD invested considerably in upgrading the security of the storage areas of the launcher sections, ultimately installing significant towers that were capable of watching over all three sections within the "exclusion area". Security | I was told police, fire services, and a host of other radios would be useless for a large area of the east coast! The booster was formed from four of the earlier Ajax M5E1 boosters held together in a frame. Subject: Inherent Dangers of Nike work, From: Michael Williquette AirDefense | Site Summit (B Battery) still sits above Eagle River, its IFC buildings and clamshell towers easily visible when driving towards Anchorage. [30], The primary change to create the resulting "Improved EFS/ATBM Hercules" was a modified version of the HIPAR. In spite of the greatly increased explosive power, the WX-7 was only slightly heavier than the WX-9, about 950lb (430kg) for common XW-7 versions, as opposed to 850lb (390kg) for the XW-9.[10]. hospital (those deemed sickest Those black, yellow and red Korean hornets. In 1946, the USAAF also started two early research projects into anti-missile systems in Project Thumper (MX-795) and Project Wizard (MX-794). Subject: More dumb stuff, From: R. 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