U.S. ARMY MISSILE PROGRAMS 1957 HAWK HONEST JOHN AJAX NIKE HERCULES NIKE AJAX DART 27374

[@johnhuff1517]

Thank you very much for making these amazing bits of history available! Always fascinating.

[@brasstard7.627]

Nice footage from Whitesands/Ft Bliss area North of El Paso. There is still wreckage of these things scattared all over the desert. Many times they went off course and hit way outside the military areas incuding a town in the Sacramento Mnts. and Juarez Mexico

[@x.y.8581]

The abandoned Nike bases became public places and real estate - used to live near and visit one.

[@blusmahn]

I remember manned batteries of Hawk missile's in Key West in the early 60's.

[@kennethjohnson6319]

When i was growing up in the early sixties we had a army base in Milwaukee they had surface-to-air missiles it was during the cold war to protect us from Russia milwaukee at the time had a lot of industrial factories at the time we don't have many factories the misses are not there anymore scary times

[@bencampbell6479]

They banned my buddy from all federal property for life for going into an old NIKE site around anchorage alaska

[@brianstefanski4508]

Gotta love the names they gave these missiles, like "Honest John" and "Little John" , wonder how these name were thought up?...

[@ChiefCabioch]

In the 50s, America had Hypersonic missiles, the Nike Zeus could get 3045mph, and the Ajax had a range altitude of 149,000'

[@axelasdf]

Littlest cameraman.

[@Jeffery_Saulter]

I used to have a pair of Nike Ajax they were good shoes