Nike Hercules Missile Q5 High Altitude Intercept
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- 1-minute film clip of a NIKE HERCULES intercepting a Q-5 target missile (late 1950s)
The Nike-Hercules system, a follow-up to the Nike-Ajax missile, was developed during the Cold War to destroy enemy bombers and enemy bomber formations, as well as serve as an anti-ballistic missile system. Western Electric, Bell Laboratories, and Douglas Aircraft Company were chief contractors for the system. Nuclear-armed Nike Hercules missiles were deployed in the United States, Greece, Italy, and Turkey, and with Belgian, Dutch, and U.S. forces in West Germany. Conventionally-armed Nike Hercules missiles also served in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Japan, Norway, and Taiwan. The first deployments in Europe began in 1959 and the last nuclear-armed Nike Hercules missiles in Europe were deactivated in 1988. The Nike-Hercules missile systems sold to Japan (Nike J) were subsequently upgraded the internal guidance systems by replacing the original vacuum tube systems with transistorized ones.
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My grandfather used to operate these at Eielson AFB in Fairbanks AK between 1966 and 1969. He earned the Expert Missileman Badge for doing so. He passed away about 2 years ago. RIP Pop
I guarded the Nike Hercules at B Btry Ft. Richardson Alaska in the mid 70's.
Be proud. Very cool
I was fortune enough to watch a Nike Hercules briefing and launch behind Eielson AFB in Alaska, surface to surface.. we watched from a mile away as the missile came out of its bunker, snapped upright an fired. A few seconds later, there was a boom…boom and it was gone. First boom was the booster blown off, and the second was breaking the sound barrier. They said at the time it flew 70 miles in 60 seconds and landed 2 yards off target. (The speed math doesn’t work out) .. Coolest thing a 10 year old could witness. Thanks Dad.
I fired. Out one at white Sands 1964
Everyone's granpa seems to be at all of these videos
My parents live 500 feet from the old silos (now welded shut) of a Nike Missile site outside of Pittsburgh, PA. What’s’ even cooler is that they also have a view of the old integrated fire control (IFC) dome developed by Bell and the Military. The radar is still in use today by the FAA!
I'm guessing they live over by sf high school?
A.E. OBlock Junior High (Plum) is built on top of a Nike silo
I was station in Fairbanks Alaska in 1964/1966.Echo battery 562 Artillery. Great job. Vinnie Yodice.
Went to Crete for ASP 7 years in a row never got tired of seeing the Nike take flight.
Then close your eyes
That Q5 looks a lot like a Bomarc.
@A.J. Cariaga: "it came in parts in wooden crates and sealed steel containers..." I guess that would explain in part how a couple of high school kids managed to get an Ajax guidance section out of the local junkyard in 1967.
holy shit. That's crazy
My father was at a base in Alaska where there was a battery of these, and later served in Texas where a battery of these missiles surrounded an Army base. Cool to see it in action...
John Black my grandfather was at Eielson in Alaska. He worked with these missiles too
There were Nike's at Fairbanks and Anchorage.
So this is where the cartoon explosion sound comes from
Actually, it's where the cartoon explosion sound was used. At that altitude, it would take over a minute for the sound to reach the ground.
This is the only time I've seen footage of a B-50 flying. Just saw one last week on display at Pima
The RAF flew Washington bombers, they were B-29s and B-50s. There is probably film of them under that name as well.
That is just incredible that they could do that in the 1950s.
Never worked Pre Star Wars bullshit system. Made alot of people rich.
This was '60's
@@YorHighness bite a fart Your Lowness
@@mehermusic2154 You're right with regard to this missile test launch. However, there were early test launches of *Nike-Ajax* and early *Nike-Hercules* versions during the 1950s.
@attovishnu You're blaming *Cold War-era* military budgets of *60* years ago for what is happening now?
used to watch the Nikes firing at drones when working at Orogrande range in 1960
We're so proud of you
I can’t believe my grandfather worked on that thing
Living history textbooks walk amongst us every day.
VIP access to a vet is pretty sweet.
I got to go to SNAP at Mac Greggor range in 68, 69, & 70 each year we would fire one Ajax and one Hercules. It was great to fire the missiles and then a few days in Juarez before it was back to our duty station. Watching this video brings back memories. Thank you for posting it.
Bonjour ,
J'étais un militaire de l'armée de l'air française - basé au départ à Saint Dizier - en 1961 ( Base aérienne 113 ) - Ensuite j'ai été transféré dans la 520 ième Brigade d'engins en Allemagne ( Stetten et Münsingen à l'ouest de l'Allemagne ) - c'était une unité de missiles NIKE ( Ajax et Hercules ) - pour la protection de la France ( c'était la '' GUERRE FROIDE '' à cette époque avec l' URSS ) . Il y avait des unités identiques - tous les 150 kms - du sud au nord de l'Allemagne . J'ai eu la chance de faire une campagne de tirs réels aux USA - fin 1962 - à FORT BLISS sur le site de MAC GREGOR RANGE à coté de EL PASO . Nous avons tiré 2 missiles en 4 jours et après c'était '' des vacances '' pendant 15 jours !! Nous avons visité CIUDAD JUAREZ à la frontière mexicaine et les '' CARLSBAD CAVERNS '' au NOUVEAU MEXIQUE et bien d'autres endroits ... Quel souvenir , surtout quand on est jeune ... un voyage pareil à 20 ans !!!!
>>>> Un grand merci à l'auteur de cette très belle vidéo !!!!
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Hello ,
I was a soldier of the French Air Force - initially based in Saint Dizier - in 1961 (Air Base 113) - Then I was transferred to the 520th Brigade of gears in Germany (Stetten and Münsingen in west of Germany) - it was a NIKE missile unit (Ajax and Hercules) - for the protection of France (it was the '' Cold War '' at that time with the USSR) . There were identical units - all 150 kms - from south to north of Germany.I had the chance to make a real shooting campaign in the USA - end of 1962 - at FORT BLISS on the MAC GREGOR RANGE site in EL PASO: We fired 2 missiles in 4 days and after that it was '' holidays '' for 15 days !! We visited CIUDAD JUAREZ on the Mexican border and the '' CARLSBAD CAVERNS '' in NEW MEXICO and many other places ... What a memory, especially when you are young ... a trip like 20 years !!!!
>>>> A big thank you to the author of this beautiful video !!!!
I commanded a Herc unit and we fired out at Ft Bliss into and missed the drone by 3 feet, the offset. We could also shot ground to ground at 100 miles. We tracked Soviet bombers coming across Canada and ships on the great lakes. We had outstanding men on our crews.
When I was a kid growing up in Milwaukee, there was a Nike Base along the Lake Shore in Cudahay. Every now and then my dad and I would take a ride over there.
I bet the pilot hoped it wouldn't lock onto his plane! I'd be shitting my pants.
My MOS 24Q20 for the Nike Hercules (radar & BCC) at Ft Bliss, Texas in 1974. However, the SALT shut down the system. I then elected to go to HAWK training with MOS 24F20 (radar & BCC). After completion of school l spent the remaining time at Homestead AFB in Florida. The ALL VOLUNTEER ARMY in 1973!
i remember building a model kit of the missle when i was a child
1/34th USAAD Ceggia Italy. Best assignment ever
I was in Air Defense Artillery 72 - 78 with the Nike and Hawks at Ft. Bliss , Germany two tours and Homestead Florida. BOC repairmen 25J20
We had a couple of of Nike sites in NJ where I grew up. There was one in Middletown and one in Sandy Hook, at Fort Hancock.. The Sandy Hook site was built across from the Lower NY Bay, across from Queens and Staten Island. It would protect Manhattan from any bomber attacks. The Middletown site had a tragic explosion in May, 1958, when 8 Nike-Ajax missles exploded, killing 6 military and 4 civilians.
There were about 14 sites in NJ, I was only mentioning the 2 which were closest to where I grew up, on the Jersey Shore, in Spring lake Heights, and Spring Lake.
I grew up near Morristown and have visited Sandy Hook a few times. Pretty cool to go and see
@@oxcarthabu Crazy man. I was born in the 70's, and the country is basically unrecognizable compared to how things were back then.
@@oxcarthabu When I was a young teen in NJ we visited a site not too far from Edison Township, I remember asking one of the soldiers how many missiles there were he told me I would have to join the Army to find out. After receiving my induction notice, at the age of twenty, in 1968 I enlisted in the Army, wound up with a Nike Hercules battery in Bristol RI. I found out the number of missiles to be 9 nukes.
I remember seeing this often on tv when I was a kid.
I think that is an AQM-60 Kingfisher drone. Ive never heard of a Q5
I need one of these for when some jackass flies too low near where I am sleeping and wakes me up.
...but I bet it is just a little bit noisier than the low flying aircraft.
Served on the Travis Defense Area Site T-10 (Elmira) 1973-1974
lol nice sound effects
When Indonesia trying to buy Nike SAM system USA reject it, and all we got is S - 75 Dvina 🙄
Bummer
proud to say my dad worked on these bad ass things
that looks like mc greggor range!
i loved the herk, but never got the chance to hit the ireing key when i was in in 79
Q5 had such high performance, missiles back then scored few kills on it.
wtf
@@mehermusic2154 a speedy target makes a difficult intercept.
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What happen to the first stage once it was jettisoned? Is it dangerous if it fall in a populated area?
The Nike Ajax and the Nike Hercules missiles were launched at a steep angle of about 85°, to ensure that the booster fell within the perimeter of the missile battery. Here's a shot of one, stuck in the dirt: ed-thelen.org/NikeAjaxBoosterLonesome.jpg
Well at this point, you're likely responding to a nuclear attack so no one gives a sh*t about the first stage anymore.
@RavenBlaze thisis in simi valley- i live about 30minutes away. Next to the Ronald regan libary
Reagan . he was an evil F^ck.
A one centimeter, one gram tiny plane travelling in air 1000 times thinner than sea level air still has about a hundred thousand trillion air molecules per cubic centimeter to use to steer towards the target. If a .45 magnum bullet can put a hole through an engine block, the one gram plane travelling at ten kilometers per second could do a lot of damage with 100 times as much destructive energy as the 45 magnum bullet. If a tiny solar powered ram jet can stay in the upper atmosphere always by travelling faster than the sun sets, the advantage if already being at high altitude and velocity and the small expense of millions of such tiny planes might make ballistic missiles useless. Millions of tiny rocket space planes in orbit might also be deployed for less expense than the argued lowervexpense of the enemy deploying more nukes to compensate for the defense. Modern microelectronics and detection technology change the whole situation.
1,000 ft?
What?
Whoop tee do
I was a dog handler on a Nike Site.
Uhhgg...I got stuck on a Nike Hercules site in Germany back in the early 80's for a year. What a shit duty that was. Talk about boring. All I did was sit in a guard tower and watch the launcher guys raise and lower those things one or two times a day. The duty was 24 on, 24 off, 8 hour day. All we did was get drunk when we were off duty because there wasn't shit to do in the middle of a forest but get drunk. Fuck that place, even 30 years later. I was never so glad to leave that shithole.
16B or a 95B???
A smile is just a frown turned upside down.
Was at wackinheim 2/1ADA was a 22l at the dsb
@@michaelakstull probably 95B I was in a HAWK unit there in the mid 80's and we had 95B's attached to our unit.
Awesome !! 🤣😂🤣 Salute - PROST from Germany !
The X-7/Q5 was actually faster than the Nike Hercules. Mach 4.3 vs 3.65.
24Quebec Ft. Bliss 1971 Excellent duty. The Japanese were the smartest students.
I work on them 1977 1979
Awesome. What kind of work did you do to them?
They probably stole it from a cartoon.
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So were nike shoes named after this missle?
Back around 1970 or 71 I saw one of these on display on a flatbed trailer. You think it looks big here, imagine how big it looked to a ten year old.
But SPRINT was the missile that always impressed me as an adult. I mean, zero to mach-10 in five seconds so it can hit incoming warheads going mach-14? Putin's new so called hypersonic missile looks like an Estes model rocket in comparison. The USA had missiles going faster than that at low altitude in the 1960s(!). Imagine what they might have in secret today.
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they only went up to 100,000 feet but most of this video is correct otherwise. Nice to see. My father was in charge of firing these bad boys back in vietnam. wild times.
There was no Nike Herc sites in Vietnam, you're thinking of the Hawk missile.
If they had such weapons back in 1950 imagine what they got now..
BA CARL But Russia is still to this day the only country that has any real serious anti ballistic missile defense for it's cities, the US never invested in any such thing because of mutually assured destruction.
thats not true at all. For one there are 12 of these missile sites in my state (CT) all near me, and there are anti missile defences in the US, you just dont know about them.
Sorry, that's crap. There aren't ANY real anti-missile defenses in the 48 states, and that money hole we have in Alaska hasn't had a single successful engagement in any real-world scenario. That old "secret defense" line might have worked 50 years ago, but it's a non-starter now. We didn't even field what could've been the very best anti-missile defense system, the Sprint/Spartan System because McNamara in another of his many bad decisions (Vietnam, anyone?) decided we didn't need it. By the way, the Russians have had an anti-missile system defending Moscow for decades...
@@kgw100 All Nike sites in the US were deactivated in the early to mid 70's. I grew up in Ansonia CT (BR-04) and was lucky enough to see that site before it was plowed over for a horse ranch. Also was able to climb the radar towers before they were taken down for development and a water tank on the old site.
Wish both sites were left alone as I always thought it was a great part of the towns history, but hardly anyone even knew it was there. Used to have arguments in school about it, even with teachers that obviously grew up while it was active.
BR-04 had 3 magazines and was a Hercules site from day 1. That was alot of firepower just a short walk through the woods from my childhood home!
I mean when it’s as simple as setting up a patriot site leaving them out so spy satellites can detect them isn’t a great idea most of the large coast city’s have protection via the destroyers and other navy ships in port
Station in pirmasiens Germany was out in local mountains w t b b
fake just like today.
What's fake? SARH missiles?
Lol wut?
tin foil hat lunatic
fake? My grandfather worked on these. I found documnets in my shed about these
@@justicejaproductions They were never used. Inaccurate paranoid illumanati bullshit. But at least your grandfather got paid.