Posted on 09/01/2021 9:54:18 AM PDT by fruser1
Starting bid is just 2 mill. Current high bid is this amount.
https://realestatesales.gov/gsaauctions/aucpbsindx/?sl=DCNCR021001001
Nike was an interesting program. Rings of missile defense placed around certain cities in the US.
Simple concept - if there was an incoming missile, just fire up a tactical nuke to take it out. Like in horseshoes, you just need to get close.
Unfortunately they realized the fallout might be a bit of a problem and the program was terminated.
So we never got to actually send one up.
:<
Just donate it to the Taliban.
I’d be interested if it comes with a couple of warheads.
Does the neutron bomb technology fix this?
My dad worked on the Nike. Was killed (the project) by the ABM treaty, if memory serves. And I believe there’s at least one old nike site in Queens, somewhere in the vicinity of LGA.
Funny you mention that-— GSA is selling a Blackhawk UH-60
min bid is 500K . All the documents on the aircraft on the page, including current un-repaired faults.
So— how many Blackhawks did the Taliban get for nothing?
At 500K per that is a LOT of US paid for equipment.
Auction ends tomorrow— it’s in Huntsville, AL at Redstone Arsenal:
https://realestatesales.gov/gsaauctions/aucalsrh/?sl=91QSCI21367601
Yep, exactly right. The grade school I attended had one on the adjoining property behind the ball fields. When they were abandoned and I was a bit older, my buddies and I rode our dirt bikes on the property and no one seemed to care.
Nah, it’s “Way To Go Joe!” that has the F-15s and nukes. And, it you were to buy this site.....BOOM! Domestic terry wrist!.
Thanks, John! Wow!
The Taliban just put in a huge cash bid ...
fruser1: “Unfortunately they realized the fallout might be a bit of a problem and the program was terminated.”
Fallout was not why the program was cancelled. The target would be a bomber carrying a very large, multi-tens of megatons, nuclear weapon. The idea was to destroy the bomber and it’s nuclear weapon before that weapon could be detonated in a major city. The fallout from the missile warhead would be minimal compared to the devastation of a multi-tens of megatons weapon delivered by the bomber.
It was the development of the ICBM that made the Nike Sites obsolete.
I’m an old nike man.. I was a Fire control crewman on the Nike Hercules, 1965-1968.. One year in Korea and Two at McGregor Range, NM...
Missile sites are for sale all the time - click the for sale link at www.silo world.net
IIRC, my dad worked on avionics ans guidance. I remmember his Sperry badge said, “Nike-X Team”. That was fifty-ish years ago.
These abandoned cold war sites are kind of cool. I remember coming across one in upstate New York, and abandoned radar facility. It had a fallout bunker and everything. All just abandoned, and you could walk through it.
Sorry I’m not bidding crap until I find out what the HOA yearly fees are!
Simple concept - if there was an incoming missile, just fire up a tactical nuke to take it out. Like in horseshoes, you just need to get close.
The Nike Ajax and Nike Hercules both had conventional warheads and were designed to shoot down bombers. They were deployed in the 1950's near several major American cities.
The Nike Zeus had a nuclear warhead. There were tests to see if it could take out an incoming ICBM and it was successful. McNamara cancelled the variant before it was operationally deployed.
Unfortunately they realized the fallout might be a bit of a problem and the program was terminated.
High altitude bursts of nuclear warheads are very clean, not much fallout. The real issues were EMP, blast and thermal radiation over or near major population centers.
The Hercules was designed to carry either a conventional or nuclear warhead. The “official” word is that the nuclear warheads were never deployed operationally within the US.
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