and could be spared), Finding warhead seal broken Back at Redstone School: Having my tech override rotation on the acquisition radar and use it to kill birds in the trees. 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. Tumors of the brain and central nervous system. 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. Subject: THULE Greenland. Skilled operators could also try to track the target in a manual tracking mode. Date: April 23, 2016. At its peak, it was deployed at over 130 bases in the US alone. The TTR was operated by three operators (range, elevation and azimuth). BudHalsey | As the larger Hercules would be easier to adapt to a longer-range form, the Army selected it as the winning design. [9]:5657, Improving performance against such targets would require either much higher resolution radars or much larger warheads. The former three-missile Nike Hercules base in Rocky Point is now the site of an Army Reserve Center but the remnants of the missile base remaina variety of structures and missile silos. HA-08 HA-25 | Site Summit (B Battery) still sits above Eagle River, its IFC buildings and clamshell towers easily visible when driving towards Anchorage. Early deployments starting in 1958 were on new sites, but Ajax units started converting as well. 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 address this whole range of issues, Bell proposed a series of changes:[26]. IrwinAnger | Acquisition Radar Systems 502-537-Non-scanning stomp up the steps of the tower 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. Germany police tell you have to go back on 2 lane roads. DISTANCE, AJI High Power has. Although Hercules had demonstrated its ability to successfully engage short-range missiles, the capability was not considered very important. Paint a Hercules trainer missile put it on a ready round trailer. the missile tracking radar in the Nike-Hercules mode, and from the target New to the Hercules system was the Target Ranging Radar, or TRR. Subject: Danger and Fun, From: "Jim Derendinger" Various military occupations include routine and usually safe exposure to radiation. All CONUS Hercules batteries, with the exception of the ones in Florida and Alaska, were deactivated by April 1974. equipment could present a potential hazard to battery personnel. Painting Missiles in a non-ventilate area. 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. One of these locations was directly above the elevator, the others were reached by manually pushing the missiles off the elevator to the launcher along rails. Attaching the warhead to the missile was a mechanical operation which was used 13 bolts at a specified torque in a proscribed sequence. Other diseases associated with radiation exposure. Thule | Veterans Administration and Agent Orange information. 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. There was one location, which, as a courtesy, you were to call them at 2:45 AM and warn them the test would start at 3:00 AM. 4 hrs in the tower and 4 hrs out of the tower. [6]:20, In 1953, Project Nike delivered the world's first operational anti-aircraft missile system, known simply as Nike. Although it was officially one of the Operation Fishbowl tests, it is . 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). HerculesMissile | About | 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. The Hawk guys at MacGregor had their fun too. 801 and above-Non-scanning (everyone), Working down range at night and [31][32] In spite of this success, the GOER-based Hercules would not be used operationally. [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. although not considered potentially hazardous, is stipulated by AR 40-583 as the 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. Radar-Non-scanning | The large airstrip remains, and is often used by locals for flight instruction and practice. Development of the Nike Hercules took place in the early 1950s and deployment commenced in 1958. With the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the units were deactivated in 1988. moving it up range for maintenance When the intensity is high, the radiation may produce enough heat to damage the tissues permanently. 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. This information was displayed on plotting boards.[36]. Thule's air defense was reduced during 1965, and SAC air base defense during 1966, reducing the number of batteries to 112. Dangers | These batteries were deactivated in the late LA-88 | The last Hercules missile was launched in the Sardinian range of Capo San Lorenzo in Italy on November 24, 2006.[34]. @MacGregor We, the 333rd, were briefly on orders to go to Vietnam as an ABM unit (like HUNH??!) RF radiation is not cumulative, but it could be hazardous. 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. 111 rows from web site va.gov. HerculesMissile | Definitions | 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. 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. 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. 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 was told police, fire services, and a host of other radios would be useless for a large area of the east coast! currents, arming magnetos, pissed off attack dogs, rifles and handguns, fracture)? WilliamJ.Auell | R&D, 2d Bn 51st Arty Individual Training Guide, New 2nd Lieutenants trying to get BCO 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. Good luck to any fishing boats at that point of the ocean. At MA+4 the missile self destructed when it failed to detect the MTR. At Redstone Nike radar range: Just for fun, on a special project, a group of 3 Nike civilians and 2 military, John H. and myself, took components out of a TTR and the Control trailer and made a radar that would fit inside an M48 Tank. Huge fireball that almost reached the launcher. 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. Of the two, the warhead seemed like the simplest problem to address. A power density of 10 milliwatts per square centimeter is Reunions | [26] Engineering was complete in 1958 and entered low-rate production in May 1959. Climbing a very rusty ABAR tower at D/2/52 to perform antenna service and wondering, "Will this rusty old ladder hold my weight?". Oozlefinch | Like the Ajax, the Hercules used a transponder in the missile. 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. Radar | It evolved into a much larger missile with two solid fuel stages that provided three times the range of the Ajax. 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. Italy | The civilian said he must have been in the antenna, that was why the phone was not answered. LaunchSet | 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. 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. [9] Beginning around 1965, the number of Nike batteries was reduced. 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. Each wing ended with a control flap which was separated from the wing by a short distance, leaving a gap. Cold [1]:52[verification needed][39] The last versions carried the W31 Mod 2 warhead, with yields of 2 or 20 kt. 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. NY53 | The resulting reflections may present a potential hazard to personnel working in the vicinity of the passive antennas. down range (two MPs injured), Last Personnel should not be permitted to enter areas where they may be Had a medic but he had nothing to help with not even an aspirin. 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. 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. Service personnel records show that the Veteran spent most of his active duty service at the Nike missile battery in Milwaukee. U.S.targets | Someone did the impossible by installing the Nike's gyro backward (that was the official explanation) which caused the missile to go more south as the computer told it to go more north. It was a very angry civilian screaming that we were melting the front end of his receiver: puddles of brass waveguide! 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! The missile would eventually pass out of line-of-sight with the MTR, so final arming information was provided during the dive, and the warhead was triggered by a barometric fuse. fingers (fuel shortage had to General Electric demonstrated a prototype on 11 February 1964. It was launched on a Nike-Hercules missile, and detonated at a lower altitude than the other Fishbowl tests. 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However, both Ajax and Hercules systems in Europe had to be able to move as US forces shifted. Gilbert Burke | Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:33:29 PM itself after a power surge or drop. 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]. range water so polluted sends MPs Haul it back to battery the same day. Lost one person when a rough terrain scoop loader roll over on him. To increase range, the missile was normally boosted above the target into the thinner air and then descended on it in a gliding dive. Home | PreservingSF-88L | Generators | [6]:39 That is, whether the missile operated more like an aircraft (Air Force) or a rocket (Ordnance). LCT op in Germany. Eating ham 3 times a day for 45 days because the Gen did not like ham. Security | To entertain ourselves we went to the motor pool and checked out some jeeps. The first Nike Ajax missile site became operational at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1954. [9]:57. fragments moving same war head electricity, Caked ice on radar tower ladders and Humor | The problem was the missile launcher itself, and especially the large HIPAR radar, which presented a formidable mobility problem. 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. Greece | Keywords CONT INENTAL Defense Department National Security Council Nuclear Warhead Enemy Attack Guy in the IFC gets Dear John letter go nuts, sent him to the hospital. BaseTuono | When mounted on its booster pack, the Hercules missile was 41feet 6inches (12.65m) long with a wingspan of 6feet 2inches (1.88m) (one side only). turning over, with injuries to Eating C rations dated 1958 ( it was 1973) and 1948 (it was 1974). Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 8:14:23 PM [26] Combining range from the TRR and direction from the TTR provided complete information on the target. Thrown back Niagara-Buffalo | 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. Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 6:39:30 PM The booster was formed from four of the earlier Ajax M5E1 boosters held together in a frame. 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. How about 3 brand new 5/4s in one weekend! to RF radiations of hazardous intensity levels. We weren't sure what kind of treasure we had found but we started picking the stuff up and putting it in the jeeps. Security | AttackonUSSR? While stationed at D/2/52 on Krome Avenue in spring 1972 we went to the RFTS to perform dailies and found that due to heavy rain the previous evening, there were approximately 100 snakes of several different types coiled up on the concrete pad at the base of the mast. MTR operator console. 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. Use of Trichlorethelene: I can remember when I was an E-2 or PFC at Site SF-88. Missile Specificaitons The Hercules missile could travel 87 miles down range and 150,000 feet in altitude. It had great maneuverability and a speed of Mach 3.65 (2,707 miles per hour). Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012. HM-69 | The M-36E1 was a steel rectangle with electric and hydraulic components and a large erecting beam supported by movable supports. platforms, In the danger zone of a radiating antenna, German citizens taking pot shots at the MemoryLane | 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 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. The soldier that fired it did a double take when he realized what the missile was after, threw the launch tube and ran. Back 1 1/2 hrs turn in vehicle get off for payday. Eventually we started seeing things that looked to be about an inch square and different lengths. azimuth, elevation and range of the missile were displayed on the plotting boards. However, as it protected a much greater area, not as many sites were needed to provide coverage of potential targets. 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. BatteryAirlift | In maintenance at Redstone Arsenal after completing the radar and computer course: Having one of my technicians fire up the TT Radar after he took apart the waveguide and stuffed a rag in it to keep the moisture out small fire! It is not clear in existing sources why the design was named "Nike B" and not "Nike IB", given that the Nike Zeus was known as "Nike II". IrwinAnger | MemoryLane | I called again at 2:55 AM but still no answer. head wound from the fins (Crew On top of it all the Germany police said your road permit just about out of time. desert north of Fort Bliss. Date: Thursday, 19 December 2013. 2nd of the 52nd | [15] Minimum range had a ground radius of approximately 10,000 yards (30,000ft; 9,100m) and an altitude of approximately 20,000 feet (6,100m) 20,000ft.[15], Throughout the early Nike evolution, the then-new Air Force had been encouraged by the deployment of the missile systems. 09/1963-09/1966, From: Hardy, Timothy A CIV (US) [35] Early models cost about US$55,250 each,[35] while most recent cost estimate, from Japan, was US$3.0 million. From: Emmett R. Caraker Jr. I called the number at 2:45 AM and got no answer (this was before answering machines). TacticalControl | Any bored idiots with single digit IQs 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. Hercules was designed from the start to operate from Ajax bases. and doing it up wind (Black RF radiation heats TacticalControl | 3/71 in Germany in 66, 67, 68 and loved every moment. I was manning the emergency power switch and had to shut down the system. My MOS was 22f20 Nike electronic maintenance and warhead specialist. 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]. 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. Every thing inside but a 1 meter dish to transmit. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) B-21DC established at Fort Heath, MA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. 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. 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 . From: Thomas Moorer Meanwhile, the TTR can continue offering location information, and in the case that is also jammed (difficult but possible), was upgraded to offer a home-on-jam mode that used the ECM system's own broadcasts as a location source. ranging radar is inconsequential under operating conditions. Damage to body tissue is not immediately Happened to a PVC Zachary at C5-6th in Baumholder Fg around 1977-78. Photo: U.S. Navy This group includes Veterans who: Served on nuclear submarines and other nuclear ships or in shipyards He turned out okay! [37] These smaller wings also housed the antennae of the transponder. RockyStovall | Sat and Bat team call out a 3am to check security alert in B section. The first HIPAR was tested at White Sands between 14 April 1960 and 13 April 1961, starting with two Ajax launches that passed 14 yards and 18 yards from the drone targets, and a further 17 Hercules launches that were generally successful. (with just a hint of sarcasm). The upper stage alone was 24feet 11inches (7.59m) long. Finding Military Veteran Health. In 1959 both the House and Senate debated the systems, with the Senate recommending cutting funding for Hercules and the House stating the opposite. Members | (wrecked to say the I proceeded with the test at 3 AM. 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. If I remember, it was just a broken arm or leg! BR-17 | SiteSummit | Physicists use these two adjustment factorstype of radiation and sensitivity of tissueto convert from measures of radiation absorption to measures of effective dose. 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. Solid fuel rockets can remain stored for years and are generally very difficult to ignite without an extended period of applied flame. I've no family history of thyroid cancer that I know of. [36] On the IFC the status of the selected missile was given. 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. 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. 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. 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. Crests | The last Hercules missiles were deactivated in Europe in 1988, without ever being fired in a military conflict. Otherwise the LOPAR was used. SF-87 | 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. ammo trailer that lost three [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. Budgetary cuts reduced that number to 87 in 1968, and 82 in 1969. 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. From: "Gerald Browning" someone (people) is down range, Rebuilding berms and equipment It is relatively easy to jam range information on monopulse radars like the TTR by sending out false return signals. [38], Hercules could carry either a nuclear warhead or a conventional high-explosive warhead (T-45 fragmentation type). TestEquipment | heat to damage the tissues permanently. Hercules, still known officially as Nike B at this point,[N 2] grew to become a much larger design. [18] This forced the Army to turn its Jupiter IRBM systems to the Air Force, and to limit the range of their ABM developments. SiteSummit | This led to the use of semi-trailer systems for the fire control systems, which could be easily moved and re-positioned as required. This was my first time doing this test. Subject: Inherent Dangers of Nike work, From: Michael Williquette out there that want to add to the list just send your material to the webmaster@nikemissile.org. [23] The first deployments in Europe began in 1959. I updated my log and headed down the hill for some rest. If I had been a few moments latter in arriving or in correcting the jammed elevator and raised missile I would not be relating this story. [20], It did, however, allow development of Hercules to continue, and the system was soon preparing to deploy. 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. The remaining units were deactivated during the spring of 1979. [2]:45, Approximately 25,000 Nike Hercules were manufactured. [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. Think of being in the worlds biggest microwave oven, ouch! driving jeeps. The back of the controls were even with the extreme rear of the missile. Testing was unexpectedly cancelled before the W-7 could be fired.[21]. 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! IFC due to getting tired of the constant blip-blip-blip from the HIPAR. This had been done for many tests in the past in the last two years. 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. Reunions | Second lt. were probably the most dangerous, trying to convince everyone they knew it all but they were just getting started. The Hawk locked on and blew the whole back half of the bus off. Radiation at the test site was. Any single battery could only launch a single missile at a time, due to the limited number of radars, computers and operators. We were later stopped by MP's and and I thought we were going to be arrested but they finally let us go. This also applies to All Radar Equipment used in All American Military Services.Exposure To Ionizing Radiation By Radar, Microwave Radio Frequency,->>> Carl Palmer, near Seattle, WA sent this out & I got started with sharing this Important . 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. Like almost any thorny military problem of the 1950s, the solution was the application of nuclear bombs. PRP | garage into the Mass Hall when they rebuild adm/barrecks. rapidly diminishes as the distance is increased. Rf radiation heats the body tissues. Propellant samples and various other Nike-Hercules components were also exposed to atomic explosions and radiation during other Plumbbob shots. As Chief Site Missile Equipment Engineer, getting a 2 AM phone call at my off base home because a visiting Colonel decided to do an unscheduled snap launch drill during a rain and later lightening storm and got a missile stuck in the raised position on the top of the elevated launch area. Conversions were largely complete by 1960, leaving only a few Ajax sites in use. Klystron tube going "real" bad! 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