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. Among the various test targets were a Mach 3 Lockheed AQM-60, a drone, and a Corporal missile. LauncherArea | It was up to him to take whatever action was necessary to protect his equipment. down range (two MPs injured), Last TD Barnes | Eating ham 3 times a day for 45 days because the Gen did not like ham. 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. PreservingSF-88L | After the call I was dismissed with a job well done. SC for Disabilities Resulting From Exposure to Ionizing Radiation. itself after a power surge or drop. Prior to launch, the Missile Tracking Radar (MTR) locked on to the transponder in the selected missile. A short period after launch the actual location, i.e. Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012, From: "Robert Kirk" An armed Nike Hercules falling into an BudHalsey | the missile tracking radar in the Nike-Hercules mode, and from the target This happened to a 16B The Nike Hercules missile launcher was called the M-36E1 monorail launcher. [11], Things changed dramatically with the development of Hercules. 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. Once the two are in the truck we head back to the unit only to be confronted by a mob of men that wanted our passengers. They saw this as an extension of the Army's existing "point defence" role, and as a valuable backup to their own manned interceptors. 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. The last Hercules missile was launched in the Sardinian range of Capo San Lorenzo in Italy on November 24, 2006.[34]. Re: Trichloroethylene, From: "Tom de Grom" RockyStovall | DISTANCE, AJI High Power Learn more about Diseases Related to Exposure to Ionizing Radiation M21-1, Part IV, Subpart ii, Chapter 2, Section C - Service Connection (SC) for Disabilities Resulting From Exposure to Environmental Hazards or Service in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) This section contains the following topics: Topic Topic Name. For these missions the computer used the MTR to guide the missile to a point above the target, then commanded it to dive vertically while measuring any changes in trajectory as it fell. head wound from the fins (Crew The missile went full left rudder looking for and found the only hot target around, the hot tube it had just left. Unfortunately the engineers had failed to remove the cheater cable which prevented the doors from opening. The Hawk guys at MacGregor had their fun too. War Veterans Assc. while on field exercises in the ammo trailer that lost three Niagara-Buffalo | From web site VA.gov. Chicago was slated to shortly begin receiving its Hercules upgrades. TestEquipment | Security | Each Nike battery consisted of two or three areas; IFC, LA and general. BatteryAirlift | The IFC contained the search and tracking radars and control center (operators, computer, etc. Getting up at 2am to drive the pay office 1 hrs to pick up pay and marks drive back 1 hrs to pay people back 1 hrs to turn in money and marks. To entertain ourselves we went to the motor pool and checked out some jeeps. It was only winter time. Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:33:29 PM 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 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. Gilbert Burke | [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. Apparently they had gotten tired of swimming. Our warhead team had the rest of the week to kill. MPs an 16Bs (most sites), Down Oozlefinch | Pittsburgh | Everglades National Park. U.S.targets | In part because of less parts supportability, Western European (Fourth Allied Tactical Air Force (4 ATAF) and Second Allied Tactical Air Force (2 ATAF) sites essentially became fixed sites and were no longer considered capable of a mobile role. It is relatively easy to jam range information on monopulse radars like the TTR by sending out false return signals. Martin produced the T48E1 and E2 designs for Ajax used a fiberglass casing that was destroyed by small explosives, but this proved overweight and did not boost the Ajax to the required speed. study of the x-ray radiation emitted from the Nike-Hercules Guided Missile Systems and determined that it is highly improbabl[e] that personnel working . positioned so as to radiate into areas occupied by passive antennas. stomp up the steps of the tower electricity, Caked ice on radar tower ladders and BR-04 | The large airstrip remains, and is often used by locals for flight instruction and practice. Sometime later our site was called up as we were the backup battery. Here are some dangers I encountered, some are just plain stupidity. I have been wanting to put in my two cents about the dangers on Nike sites. Lost one person when a rough terrain scoop loader roll over on him. Germany 1961: Being the only one in the back of a 5 ton when the driver slams on the brakes. It was quite a bit bigger than the Nike Ajax launcher and it weighed about 7 tons. 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!) Increasing performance against these longer-range "theatre" weapons would require more extensive upgrades that would have pushed the time-frame out to the range when FABMDS was expected. The nuclear-tipped . 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. [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. [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. Ajax | Our team finished the second day with a perfect score, but the rest of our battery was just getting started. made it work :), Unsymmetrical Dimethyl Hydrazine - NIKE Ajax starter fluid, Armed military aircraft (nuclear?) Hercules remained a major front-line weapon in Europe into the 1980s. The project had moved several times, and was now in late development as the BOMARC. 2 people pulling/pushing by hand a 10,710 pound missile to a launcher. 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. A dual-launch followed on 24 July, with the first round destroying its target with the T45, and the second with the instrument package flying one second behind. Thanks guys. After the phase-out of the Nike Ajax system, sites B-05, B-36, and B-73 remained supplied with Hercules missiles. This led to the use of semi-trailer systems for the fire control systems, which could be easily moved and re-positioned as required. azimuth, elevation and range of the missile were displayed on the plotting boards. Tents were only 8 to 10 feet from the building they were rebuilding. I also showed him where in the log I made two calls when only one was required. Additionally the radar was given the "Electronic Frequency Selection" (EFS) system which allowed operators to quickly switch between a selection of operating frequencies at about 20 microseconds, while the earlier system required manual switching that took about 30 seconds. AttackonUSSR? may be used as a guide to prevent radio-frequency radiation hazards. HA-08 HA-25 | Had a medic but he had nothing to help with not even an aspirin. The active seeker system was later dropped to lower costs. By the early 1950s, the Air Force was still struggling with their own long-range weapon systems, originally started in the 1940s in the GAPA project. R&D, 2d Bn 51st Arty Individual Training Guide. heat to damage the tissues permanently. Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:38:38 PM I am so proud to have been a part it all. Then I remembered that the civilian said he had been in the antenna cleaning and had just left, missing a dose of thousands of watts of RF energy- a close call. Anyway, Dr tells me that the leading suspects are heredity and exposure to radiation in early adulthood. In the HIPAR building when and during a This was aircraft with speeds up to Mach 3, a wide range of radar cross sections, and powerful electronic countermeasures. Patriot's much higher accuracy allowed it to dispense with the nuclear warhead, and Hercules was the last US SAM to use this option. Still at Redstone: Having a generator mechanic switch out generators and not have it in phase with the other generator running to the van. SF-51 | LOPAR was relatively small, and the TTR/MTR were always trailer based, so these systems were also fairly mobile. being the MP whom was moving the At Shot Morgan on October 7, two sets of missile However, it makes the determination of range difficult or impossible. My name is Michael Williquette. To operate the Nike Hercules system on the IFC the crew consisted of about nine operators under command of the Battery Control Officer (BCO). LauncherArea | Subject: Nike Herc Missile exploded. | 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. TrainingGuide | Greece | The emerald that was melted was in one of the first RF laser amplifiers in the world! Finding 126 feet, Target Tracking [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). Interceptions with the Hercules system would typically start with targets being detected and identified on the HIPAR system, if this was in use. I had one thing to do I drove through them, they all got clear. [6]:20, In 1953, Project Nike delivered the world's first operational anti-aircraft missile system, known simply as Nike. 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. with gas masks and running through Germany 1962: As Duty driver I get a call from the CQ. A discussion about veterans health. someone (people) is down range, Rebuilding berms and equipment Members | Instead of de-emphasizing BOMARC in favor of Hercules, inter-service rivalry became rampant, and the Air Force began a policy of denigrating Hercules and the Army using policy by press release. 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. Radiation at the test site was. It often had rack sections attached to it also. Getting called to duty at 3AM to go and save two MPs who were on a site-seeing mission in a snow storm and their jeep got stuck. Eating out of marmite cans 2 times a day every other day for years. Oozlefinch | Any single battery could only launch a single missile at a time, due to the limited number of radars, computers and operators. Ionizing Radiation From Radar Emissions:->>> Let me bring you Nike Guys up to date with our Ionizing Radiation Exposures from Radar on Hawk Missile Sites. Italy | open pit. There are certain diseases that may be service-connected if the disease occurred as a result of the radiation exposure. He was safe but tube died. 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. WilliamJ.Auell | Testing was unexpectedly cancelled before the W-7 could be fired.[21]. [9]:61, All of this was part of a larger fight going on over the Army's Jupiter missile, which the Air Force stated should be their mission. (Me), Having a security alert at night Handling | At 3:03 AM I received a call from our base switchboard. Veterans Administration and Agent Orange information. [9]:5758 Nevertheless, when the Army first released information about Ajax to the press in 1953, the Air Force quickly responded by leaking information about BOMARC to Aviation Week,[16] and continued to denigrate Nike in the press over the next few years. Then he said "the emerald in the amplifier was melting also; oh my God stop, stop now!" We had been working on the cable cleaning for quite some time when he came by to check on us. Overview | HerculesMissile | The Nike Hercules became operational in 1958, and more than 80 Nike Hercules missiles were deployed in the United States, with 10 more in Europe and Taiwan. TD Barnes | 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. Also conducted were tests to evaluate ECM performance, two surface-to-surface tests, and two Hercules-on-Hercules attacks with the target Hercules flying in a semi-ballistic trajectory.[27]. and me the job of cleaning the cables in the Panel Room in B Section. A similar test on 29 July launched two missiles against three F-80 Shooting Star drones flying in formation, the first missile destroyed the lead aircraft while the second passed within lethal range of a second. The first missile in the series was Nike Ajax, a two-stage, liquid-fueled missile 21 feet (6.4 metres) long built by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Supply Person (76Y) shot is finger in the arms room with a M1911A1 (cal.45). The Army then began its own series of press releases under what they called "Project Truth". 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. Physicists use these two adjustment factorstype of radiation and sensitivity of tissueto convert from measures of radiation absorption to measures of effective dose. I was a trainer for HqBn. The first Nike Ajax missile site became operational at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1954. and 16Bs to 5th Gen the body tissues. Turn a 2 bay vehicles manit. Developed by Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque and at Los Alamos, it was given 1A priority by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in March 1953. A new missile could be launched about 11 seconds after detonation or rejecting the previous missile. PreservingSF-88L | The M-36E1 was a steel rectangle with electric and hydraulic components and a large erecting beam supported by movable supports. has. Cold Of the two, the warhead seemed like the simplest problem to address. Dangers | truck breaking bone's (compound NY56 | Subject: Nike site in Germany Subject: More dumb stuff, From: R. Alderson / SP5 AirDefense | fields. C-50 | The location was downtown Huntsville, Alabama. 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. HM-69 | I called the number at 2:45 AM and got no answer (this was before answering machines). From: Barry Hayes Germany police tell you have to go back on 2 lane roads. This information is base upon the average power outputs and Military Veteran Health. It seeks to avoid unnecessary radiation exposure whenever possible and to minimize doses when exposure is unavoidable. I was told police, fire services, and a host of other radios would be useless for a large area of the east coast! And you must have had contact with ionizing radiation in one of these ways while serving in the military: You served in the postwar occupation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, or. 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. Eating "something" (mystery meat) at cafe while on SNAP at NAMFI Crete Greece. New to the Hercules system was the Target Ranging Radar, or TRR. Luckily spread eagle. The upper stage alone was 24feet 11inches (7.59m) long. Radar | to RF radiations of hazardous intensity levels. Cold War Missiles in Miami | Redstone Arsenal then presented the T48E3 which was somewhat larger and longer to reach reasonable performance, but only at the cost of having to modify all of the Ajax launcher rails. Of course this was an incident that never officially happened. RockyStovall | Parathyroid adenoma. The mishap led to the release of four nuclear weapons. No equipment mechanic was on site so as the SSG in charge of the engineering section I was called in and no sooner after I had the missile back down and into the bunker and I was walking away from the hill there was a MAJOR DIRECT LIGHTENING STRIKE to the exact launch door that had been jammed open with a raised NIKE HERC MISSILE. From: Emmett R. Caraker Jr. The decision to cancel the deployment was one of the best decisions made during the war (at least from my point of view). Current Events | Deployment of the INH upgrade kits began on 10 June 1961 at the BA-30 site in the WashingtonBaltimore defense area, and continued into September 1967. Thule | Falling down the ladder leading to the All CONUS Hercules batteries, with the exception of the ones in Florida and Alaska, were deactivated by April 1974. Although it was officially one of the Operation Fishbowl tests, it is . Starting in April 1960, considerable effort was put into a fully mobile "Cross-Country Hercules" launcher based on the M520 Goer vehicle, an articulated prime mover that saw considerable service during the Vietnam War. 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. Faulty solid fuel flamed out about 500' after launch, separated from second stage and then reignited and slammed into the second stage. [9]:5657, Improving performance against such targets would require either much higher resolution radars or much larger warheads. The occasion was the national commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the defense department. Nike Hercules was included in SALT I discussions as an ABM. 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. MemoryLane | 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. but the orders were canceled because of a security leak. This Nike Hercules Missile Site is dedicated to all soldiers, family members and friends that served in Delta 2-1- ADA -32nd AADCOM, Dichtelbach, Germany. I and the Medic have to make a run to a nearby town and rescue two young troops from a mob. thing working a Nike site some Deployment began in 1958, initially at new bases, but it eventually took over many Ajax bases as well. I think what we were putting in the jeep was solid propellant fuel for the missiles. [37] These smaller wings also housed the antennae of the transponder. However, both Ajax and Hercules systems in Europe had to be able to move as US forces shifted. and could be spared), Finding warhead seal broken resulting reflections may present a potential hazard to personnel workingin SF-87 | into a missile tracking magnetron, (just turned on - not up). TerryFetterman | Guestbook | The Nike Hercules missiles were positioned underground in the silos. The U.S. Army continued to use Hercules as a front-line air defense weapon in Europe until 1983, when Patriot missile batteries were deployed. BR-17 | To: webmaster@nikemissile.org Niagara-Buffalo | Photo: U.S. Navy This group includes Veterans who: Served on nuclear submarines and other nuclear ships or in shipyards 1969: Attack on USSR? Then haul it to K-town so the Gen had it for display. BudHalsey | Any bored idiots with single digit IQs BaseTuono | Although Hercules had demonstrated its ability to successfully engage short-range missiles, the capability was not considered very important. Site Summit (B Battery) still sits above Eagle River, its IFC buildings and clamshell towers easily visible when driving towards Anchorage. [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. Live in tents while they rebuilding adm/barrack. Chief), Being a nube and forgetting to going out to the RF Test Set. I was manning the emergency power switch and had to shut down the system. Trophy | Vets at Homestead AFB had to treat them- a tricky procedure for both the vet and the dog handler. LaunchEquipment | TacticalControl | Bell began working on the new design in concert with the Nike partners, Western Electric and Douglas Aircraft Company. Any vets desert north of Fort Bliss. Subject: Melting Waveguide I've no family history of thyroid cancer that I know of. exposed to levels above 10 milliwatts per square centimeter. Air Force call the Army about it. Alaska | Tom Cluff | The civilian on the phone and two other scientists received a Noble Prize for discovering cosmic background radiation in space, the C.O.B.E. LA-43 | Italy | Guestbook | equipment could present a potential hazard to battery personnel. losing 10% of sight from metal Safety officer blew it before it crossed into Mexico. Video | IrwinAnger | We were using trichlorethelene (but not in a well vented area). [17] This was answered most forcibly not by the Army, but the Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson, who wrote in Newsweek that "one hard solid fact remerges above them all: no matter what the Nike is or isn't, it's the only land-based operational anti-aircraft missile that the U.S. The Best Nike Hercules Missile Radiation Exposure 2022. NY56 | 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. 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. [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. The Best Nike Hercules Missile Radiation Exposure 2022. 7923 carlton arms rd, apt b (1,726.23 mi) indianapolis, in, in 46256. 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. Reunions | [9] Beginning around 1965, the number of Nike batteries was reduced. Not only were the duties on a Like the Germans and British before them, they concluded the only successful defence would be to use guided weapons.[5]. Budgetary cuts reduced that number to 87 in 1968, and 82 in 1969. Subject: Nike Herc night time thriller. The driver had just stepped around behind a dune to relieve his bladder when the bus blew up. Its warhead also allowed it to be used in a secondary surface-to-surface role, and the system also demonstrated its ability to hit other short-range missiles in flight. A similar test on 17 July against a 300-knot (350mph; 560km/h) Q2A destroyed the target with the T45. Once a target was found on the LOPAR, it could be identified with aid of an Identification friend or foe system. 33 feet, Systems 538-594 and TerryFetterman | 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. General Electric demonstrated a prototype on 11 February 1964. About | Carl Durling C-2-52 1961-62: In testing the system was successful against all manner of short-range rockets and missiles, and successfully tracked the Redstone on 23 September and 5 October 1963, but failed to achieve a "kill" in either test due to unrelated problems. I was at Delta Team 43rd Artillary with our headquarters in Duran. A short in the cables (again the official explanation) to the launcher caused the missile to launch without the MTR being ready. 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