On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 16:11:18 GMT, patricia@school.study wrote:
>A friend of my Dad's said that the only thing this system could reliably
>shoot down was a piston engine airliner.
The Nike Ajax was less than stellar, that is true. However, the USA based Nike
Hercules almost all carried thermo-nuclear warheads ranging in yield from 2 -
30kt, this dramatically increased the chance of a kill. You know what they say,
close only counts with horse shoes, hand grenades and thermo-nuclear weapons.
Intercepting a target in the vicinity of a large population center was
considered to be less than an ideal scenario.
As a side note, many Nike sites were manned by the Army National Guard. I
believe this was the only scenario in published history when National Guard
troops were equipped with nuclear weapons.
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