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    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...
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    of rocket including the Nike Hercules missile and NASA's Nike Smoke rocket, used for upper-atmosphere research. Project Nike began during 1944 when the...
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    simply as "Nike", it gained the "Ajax" as part of a 1956 renaming effort that resulted from the introduction of the similarly named Nike Hercules. It was...
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    The Nike stage or Nike booster, a solid fuel rocket motor, was created by Hercules Aerospace for the Nike Ajax (M5) Nike Hercules (M5E1) (and M88 late...
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    as part of the Project Nike. On Okinawa, the 30th ADA Brigade was on Okinawa. On Reversion Day, May 15, 1972, all Nike Hercules missile sites were handed...
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    900–945 lb (408–429 kg). The W31 is a boosted fission nuclear bomb. The Nike Hercules was a surface-to-air or surface-to-surface missile system deployed around...
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  • Blonde (2016) Project Nike, a US Army missile project MIM-3 Nike Ajax, a solid fuel–propelled surface-to-air missile Nike Hercules, a solid fuel–propelled...
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    originally armed with Nike Ajax missiles, and modifications were made to the site in 1958 to allow it to also be armed with Nike Hercules missiles. In 1974...
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    NIKE J was the name for the Japanese version of the Nike Hercules surface-to-air missile. It was produced by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. First test firings...
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    Development, and is based on the American 1960s Nike Hercules missile system; the US designates it as the Nike Hercules Korea (NHK-1). In 1986, South Korea succeeded...
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