re: #558 Daniel Ballard

50% is a work in progress.

And Nike Hercules was for bombers. How many links would you like?
[Link: alpha.fdu.edu…]

Did you seriously just not fucking read that? You are starting to piss me off and I never get pissed off.

Work on a successor to the first Nike missile, the Nike Ajax, was initiated well before the first Ajax missiles were deployed at tactical sites across the nation. Two major considerations drove the development of the this second-generation Nike missile. The first was a requirement to produce a missile with improved speed, range and altitude capabilities to defend against a new generation of faster and smaller aerial targets, in particular, supersonic aircraft and cruise missiles. The second requirement was the desire to arm this new missile with a powerful atomic warhead to ensure destruction of the target aircraft and the destruction of disabling of any nuclear weapons it carried.