[Milsurplus] NEEDED!!! Nike Ajax manuals most needed is one that shows guidance platform. We have one at the SMECC museum but alas someone detached and de-wired a few of the gyros

[Michael St. Angelo]

The Fort Hancock NY56 Nike base is still present in Sandy Hook National Recreational area. They periodically give tours of the radar site and occasionally of the launching area.

 

Check it out if you are in the area:

 

<https://ny56nike.weebly.com/>

 

Mike N2MS

 

From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of howard holden
Sent: Monday, July 1, 2019 6:53 PM
To: Rich Arland
Cc: ED SHARPE via Milsurplus
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] NEEDED!!! Nike Ajax manuals most needed is one that shows guidance platform. We have one at the SMECC museum but alas someone detached and de-wired a few of the gyros

 

Ajax was conventional, and the first in the Nike series. Hercules and Zeus were capable of carrying a small nuke warhead. We had a Nike base near where I grew up in NJ, and I toured it once or twice as a kid. Think the base came in three widely separate sections- a launch site, a radar site, and a command site. 

Howie WB2AWQ/7

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On Jul 1, 2019, at 14:19, Rich Arland <k7sz at live.com> wrote:

If I recall correctly the Nike Ajax series were nuclear armed ground-to-air AAA missiles for use against Russian nuclear bombers! Where did you get one of those? I need one for my front yard!!!

 

Sent from my Sprint Phone.

 

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From: ED SHARPE via Milsurplus 

Date: Mon, Jul 1, 2019 15:06

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Subject:[Milsurplus] NEEDED!!! Nike Ajax manuals most needed is one that shows guidance platform. We have one at the SMECC museum but alas someone detached and de-wired a few of the gyros

 

NEEDED!!!  Nike  Ajax manuals     most  needed  is  one that  shows   guidance platform. We have one at the SMECC museum but alas  someone  detached and de-wired  a  few of the gyros  need  to  re  hook and make  look  nice!  there is a  scan of the   manual I need online  but  just the  text is  ocr'ed  on it... alas...

 

PLEASE ALSO CC  MY  EMAIL  FROM  THE LIST HERE 



 

Pretty  funny  CH Surplus  sold  these   in Pasadena Calif  at  one  time!

 

Or  if  someone  has a  cleaner all together one  happy  to  hear  about that  too.. Any  Nike  parts   will be  displayed.




 

We are  also  gathering more   material and photos   etc  to put  up on the  SMECC  web site also.  If  you have something stuffed in  a drawer  please  get it out and over  here or  send  us  scans   so   more  info if  available.

 

 <https://www.smecc.org/la-55_nike_radar_site_palos_verdes_ca_.htm> https://www.smecc.org/la-55_nike_radar_site_palos_verdes_ca_.htm



Some  LA-55  stuff!

 

PLEASE ALSO CC  MY  EMAIL  FROM  THE  

 

Ed Sharpe Archivist  for SMECC 
who loved living across and having the  guys at  LA=-55  radar  site in Palos Verdes as adopted older  brothers.

 

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