Nike Hercules Missile Test Firing

Nike Hercules Test Firing
Nike Hercules was replaced by the Patriot Air Defence System

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• Nike
• Hercules
• Test
• Firing
• Missile

[proaudiohd]

haha. i think there is one explosion sound effect for every piece of footage from 1950-1980

[inagod]

@anisocoro I'm surprised of how many people still are preoccupied by blacks,I just saw a comment about the Orkin bug commercial using a black man,her comment was,whats next black and white bugs,made no sense.I just don't get it,I grew up in the 1960's and my parents never made a single comment about black people in a negative way.

[369NICK963]

when you say to a black man hey nigger he gets pissed. if you say to a white man hey white dude he'll be like ...ok? don't you think thats a little strange?

[AssemblerGuy]

If you look carefully, at 0:38 you can barely see a guy discard a spent match and legging it... ;-P

[aluisious]

@supressorgrid Either that or you can't record the sound of an explosion at 60k feet that will sound like anything :p

[supressorgrid]

@proaudiohd everything was designed with the same sound signature as to avoid the enemy from knowing what weapon was being used.

[matt605]

@zeke1312 The UFO scares were abating by 1962 and the military is always adding new missiles. They could have built a "shoulder-fired," surface-to-air nuclear cruise missile to keep handy just in case the UFOs spotted in Herndon in July 1952 returned. Anyway, I can't figure how W-83 was included in SALT if there were only Ajax conventional missiles there, and a lagniappe for UFO protection would have been logical. For me it was long ago, but not so far away. Live long and prosper, zeke.

[zeke1312]

@matt605 Matador 600 mph "beam rider" cancelled in 1962. Poor performance very susceptible to jamming. A poor solution. I think "UFOs" in the sense of "little green men" will fly faster than 600 mph. ;) Anyhow, I think I'll "retire" from this conversation.

[matt605]

@zeke1312 Sure, they were all supposed to be conventional, Ajax missiles that were in the DC area Nike sites, but what if they deployed some Matador nuclear cruise missiles sporatically to assure there was a response capability in case of UFO attack? UFOs today are just things we laugh at -- hoaxes or McDonalds bags that get caught in the wind. In the 50s though, UFOs were serious business.

[zeke1312]

@matt605 Actually there were several reports of seeing/tracking "UFOs" at Nike sites throughout the US. Since there were over 200 Nike sites in the US, I'm sure there were UFO reports. But Nike sites were not built because "UFOs" in the sense we are talking about. Instead they were designed to kill airplanes such as Soviet bombers. They were useless against ICBMs much less UFOs, unless of course the "UFO" was a jet aircraft. Since Nike Herc can be nuclear, it was assumed many sites had them. :)

[matt605]

@zeke1312 Yes, I didn't distinguish between Ajax and Hercules warheads, but the Herndon site did become operational in Nov 54, just 27 months after UFOs were cited by airline pilots in July 52 in Herndon. People insist that nuclear tipped Hercules missiles were never based at W-83, but that site was decommissioned as part of the SALT nuclear disarmament talks between the US and USSR. Were other nukes put there bc of the 52 UFOs? To not respond would be negligent of the military.

[zeke1312]

Also google DEW line for Canadian radar defense line.