Launchers obliterated. W-13DC was the first Missile-Master DC to become operational. Some old roads remain. Abandoned and overgrown site at the south end of lake/state recreation area. Abandoned, overgrown with trees and vegetation. CAArNG, 458th MASH facility. Intact, Private ownership, 1 launcher used to store dynamite. The missile station, officially dubbed SL-40, is near Hecker, a town of 500, though it has a Red Bud address: 5055 M Road. LS completely removed. The site was equipped with the AN/GSG-5(V) BIRDIE solid-state computer system. It was inactivated on 1 Oct 1980, declared excess on 15 Dec 1980, then reactivated on 12 May 1981 and remained in use until the closure of Loring Air Force Base in 1995. No radar towers standing. Missile site partially intact, used by City of Torrance, Torrance Airport Civil Air Patrol. Small part US Army Reserve center. Obliterated, no evidence of existence at end of former access road. Some IFC buildings still in-use, part of site also used by "Rolnick Observatory" also using old IFC buildings. No signs of radar towers. Light office building, parking lot, also Worcester Nike Park. Follow us on Twitter to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. In early 1965 the AN/TSQ-51 "Missile Mentor" solid-state computer system was installed. Missile assembly building appears standing, concrete missile pads deteriorated concrete. Several radar towers standing, several buildings in radar area deteriorating, and some loose concrete on site. The Russian invasion of Ukraine brings back memories of the Cold War. Used as City of Rancho Palos Verdes storage area. FDS. A battery of Nike missiles was installed at Belmont Harbor in the early 1950s. These were supposed to be airlifted to certain Nike sites in case of deterioration of the international political situation in the world. Many buildings standing, some razed. The site was purchased by a developer with a school built on the launch area. No radar towers. magazine paved over for school bus parking and as an outdoor education center, Redeveloped into Cuyahoga Community College, Western Campus, Now City of Cleveland J L Stamps District Service Center, Part of Runway L6 Cleveland Lakefront Airport, Baseball Field, Part of Cleveland Tri-City Park, Tennis Courts, Part of Cleveland Tri-City Park, Private ownership. Property given to North Allegheny School District. Buildings in good shape, no evidence of radar towers. The site's housing and administrative complex was sold to a private owner and is currently being used as a residence. Located at Battery Leary, Merriam, Upper Reservation, Ft. MacArthur. Intact, Abandoned, Pere Marquette State Park. Magazine area appears to be an auto junkyard, although intact, appears to be a large garage, auto dismantling building erected over the magazine. The only IFC building left is a small pump house. Manned by C/36th (/54-9/58), C/1/562nd (9/58-3/60) and MDArNG A/1/70th (3/60-12/62). Now "Nike Overlook Park". No missiles were ever actually launched in Chicago. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) C-80DC established at Arlington Heights AI, IL in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. 16T E 404265 N 4628284. Nike missiles were defensive weapons. Appears to be in good condition, no evidence of radar towers. Private ownership, berms still in evidence in aerial imagery. On top of mountain ridge, under US Army control. May be a radar platform in SE corner near "Nike Road". Leveled and cleared; redeveloped into Patriots Park along 187th Street. Maryland Indian Heritage Society. Essex County Park District, developed into Riker Hill Park. Intact, East Bay Regional Park District, Lake Chabot Park, Department of Public Safety, service yard. On 18 Sep 1968, IFC-2 was designated the Palehua AF Solar Observatory Research Site, activated, and assigned to Military Airlift Command with jurisdiction and operational control assigned to Air Weather Service. Most buildings razed and rebuilt as a Relay site. Some buildings remain in use, most razed along with radar towers. Site guard shack and owner' house is a reconstructed Crew quarters. Magazine visible, covered with vegetation and refuse. IFC Redeveloped into a public park called Nike Park, in the middle of a much larger industrial park. Command, maintenance, and fueling buildings now serve as the U.S. Border Patrol's Detroit Sector Headquarters. The U.S. Army (19541959) and the Army National Guard (19591963) operated this battery. Magazine area now storage yard. Hart Island, Double Magazines covered over with vegetation on north end of island; Buildings spread out all over the island, all appear in highly deterioration condition. Never completed. Private ownership, development company. She has visited half of the states, as well as parts of Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and regularly travels home to the Hoosier State to see friends and family. Located behind single-family home subdivision 20260 South Garnder Road. C-41 Jackson Park. Magazine area used by construction company for equipment repair/storage. Double-battery Nike launch area on top of tall ridge. Site leased in about 2014 and is now Wing Headquarters for the Maryland Wing, Civil Air Patrol. Many foundations remain with broken concrete spread around area, roads in deteriorating condition. Hotel and commercial development. Barracks building in use, several radar towers still standing. The adjacent buildings are used by an EOD unit. Magazine area has been partially filled in, severe cracking of concrete, abandoned. Buildings vacant, but given the remoteness of this facility appear to be in decent shape. Redeveloped into high-end single-family housing. FDS. Buildings used for storage/support in good condition, rest of site has been razed and sold off, now single-family housing, no evidence of radar towers. Private ownership, complete and buildings look in good shape. Even the signs listing the bunker's rules can be read decades later. The Arlington Heights Army Air Defense Site was a Project Nike Missile Master site near Chicago, Illinois. Undetermined purpose Site largely intact barracks has been torn down. Buildings in use as "4-H Park and County Fairgrounds". Defense dollars were shifted to other projects like developing Americas own intercontinental ballistic missiles and missile defense systems, along with the growing war in Vietnam. The central buiding houses the elevator to take the missileers down to the underground control center. FEMA team headquarters, and missile site still accessible. Launched from a Montana silo, a Minuteman III would take about 20 minutes to reach Moscowits speed is not constant along its flight path. No evidence of former IFC site. FDS. Obliterated, City of Rancho Palos Verdes, Del Cerro Park. Radars used at Fire Island were CPS-6B, FPS-8, CPS-4, FPS-20A, FPS-6B. Obliterated. Largely Obliterated, some remains in semi-wooded area. Many of the original structures, fencing, pavement, light poles, etc., still remain. Site equipped with the AN/GSG-5(V) BIRDIE solid-state computer system. In highly urban area. Today, the housing is abandoned and the homes had been removed, leaving the basements exposed. O'Block Junior High, and Adlai Stevenson Elementary School. Underground single-magazine intact, Private Ownership. The land at 770 Muddy Branch Road (Excess Land Sale Only) is one of fourteen federal properties listed for disposal by the Public Buildings Reform Board in their 2019 recommendations. Abandoned. The area is off-limits to visitors at Angel Island State Park. IFC buildings are being reused in reasonable condition. Redeveloped area in northern tip of airport now has a general aviation hangar, parking lot and ramp area for aircraft parking. We are eager to share our knowledge and expertise to assist you with purchasing your own Launch doors are probably sealed shut but visible along with Nike concrete launching pads. Oakland Community College. The MAF's are also a target. Each squadron has five Missile Alert Facilities which each control ten silo's for a total of 50 silo's per squadron. Solar panels and a simple off grid power [] $999900 118.5 acres 2 bd Private owners, buildings in good shape, appears to be single-family homes built on site. Nothing left. Air Force operations ended 31 July 1964. Former above-ground site with berms protecting launchers. Abandoned site at the north end of the SRA/north shore of the lake, where S. Wolf lake Blvd. Intact, NMArNG Miliray Academy. Not all silos have missiles. Redeveloped Solano County Detention Center and Animal Shelter, FSUSD bus yard. At that time it was redesignated; and Jurisdiction, Control, and Accountability assigned to Andrews AFB. Double-magazine site with Nike Assembly building evident, also concrete launcher foundations. The cost of a new ICBM is going up. Today's W78 warheads are 23 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In aerial imagery, launch site appears to be abandoned and overgrown with trees and other vegetation. Obliterated, State of Alaska control, demolished. The site, known officially as 550th SMS Site 2, was constructed in 1961 and decommissioned on June 25, 1965. Buildings in good condition, the old radar towers are still standing. Well-preserved in private ownership. AADCP inactivated 1 September 1974 and dissolved as part of the 1988 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. Isle of Wight County Park. zoom this map to see individual missile silos. This site was the western end of a test range under the jurisdiction of Griffiss AFB. Barracks remaining. Troop barracks are used for storage for Nike Elementary School in the Meramec Valley R-3 school district. Closed by 1997. There were more active silos in the past. These were covering the Norwegian capital, the former Kolss HQ Allied Forces Northern Europe (AFNORTH), the Rygge and Gardermoen airbases and the naval base Karljohansvern. Intact, Private ownership in good condition. Locked gate and fence; however, launch facility is abandoned and deteriorating all buildings are standing, but they are in bad shape. Deactivated silos were located in Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, New York, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington. Aerial image shows faint evidence of launcher area appears to be covered with soil. #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left;width:100%;font-weight:normal;}, Beyond Chicago from the Air with Geoffrey Baer, The Great Chicago Fire: A Chicago Stories Special. Obliterated, Milagra Ridge (GGNRA). So, 50 silos are empty, but the enemy may have a difficult FDS. Private ownership, berm and assembly building exits. It was used until 15 December 1975 for Civil Air Patrol use, being called Fork CAP Annex. Outline of fence evident in aerial photography. Quick Description: Former Nike site in Naperville, Illinois. Obliterated, City of Detroit. Many tractor trailers and new small business or manufacturing buildings on the site. Buildings in use, no radar towers. It has been in use as a secured communications site for various federal agencies, including BLM, FAA, FCC, FBI, IRS, and others. Buildings mostly razed, part of facility remains in SW corner. It has a maximum range of 8,700 miles and a maximum speed of Mach 23 After inactivation, the property reverted to Selfridge AFB. The Formerly Used Defense Sites (FDS) program processed many former sites and then transferred them out of Defense Department control.[7]. FDS. Elevators cemented over. USAR Center. Concrete foundations badly deteriorated, only some building foundations remain. Land cleared and being redeveloped into forested area. Note: The Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 had a yield of 15 kilotons. Buildings still standing, missile firing area in good condition. Off "Nike Site Road". Redeveloped. Two round ground pads, one square ground pad, and one tower with cyclone fence around the top. N 41 48.039 W 088 09.142. The Boston Defense Area merged with Hartford & Providence Defense Areas in 1962, becoming the New England Defense Area. Obliterated and abandoned, Department of Energy. Above-ground magazines protected by berms. A few buildings in use by Teen Challenge; drug & alcohol rehab center. Owned by the Nassau Board of Cooperative Education, which uses the site as the Brookville Nature Park and Outdoor Education Center. [33]420020N 0832035W / 42.00556N 83.34306W / 42.00556; -83.34306 (D-57/58-LS), KC-65DC was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site P-72 / Z-72. Private ownership, 4 military buildings still exist, usage unknown. As Greenland is Danish and that country refused to host foreign military and nuclear weapons, a bilateral agreement was signed allowing access for all US forces and weaponry in Greenland. Rebuilt as Los Angeles County prison camp. City of Virginia Beach, Parks and Recreation offices. Now obliterated, Park, ownership by Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Radar facility used as storage for Lannon County Park and as a US Cellular tower site. The logistics train was airlifting by US CH-47's within 6 hrs after receipt of a coded message. The remainder of these sites are privately owned. FDS. Likely most of site is under vegetation cover. The site is overgrown with vegetation, Nike launch buildings are relatively intact. The road to the site is down the road to the left. Magazines visible behind parking lot. Each squadron has five Missile Alert Facilities which each control ten silo's for a total of 50 silo's per squadron. Mostly intact, some IFC buildings being used for transmitter support with large radio towers on site. Obliterated, Wildcat Canyon Regional Park. Intact, NPS-GGNRA, Angel Island State Park. Intact, Gateway National Recreation Area. No radar towers. Site is abandoned, four radar towers standing. Missile magazines exist however launchers appear to be concreted over. The other two Illinois facilities were in Grafton and Hector, with a fourth location in Pacific, Missouri. Former Silo Locations in Central South Dakota. Some old buildings remain. All buildings at the site were demolished in 1977. The Russian invasion of Ukraine brings back memories of the Cold War. Press reports and Pentagon briefings have put the number of ICBMs at 400. eventually we came to a missile silo right near State Highway 34 and there was a semi-truck backed up right onto the pad inside the perimeter of the . Largely intact and listed on the. The site fired Nike missiles at potentially incoming jets as part of the Project Nike. On high ridge, elevation 3,750'. Subterranean shelters for sale Take a look at the weird and wonderful abandoned bunkers for sale right now. The sites were using mixed warheads; meaning always 2 sections nuclear-capable (W31 selectable 20 or 2 kiloton yield) and 1 section only conventional (T-45 High Explosive) armed.[5]. A missile may have a MIRVed warhead, containing three W78 350-kiloton warheads, to attack three targets. All air vents, stairwells, hatches, etc. FDS. The radar site ceased all operations on 15 August 1962. Love Illinois? In reasonable condition. The Air Force ceased radar operations on 30 Sep 1969, and the AADCP was inactivated on 1 Sep 1974. Some foundations of buildings, remainder of streets. Vacant land. While all of the munitions have been removed from the site, one of the decomissioned missiles is still on display in nearby Villa Park, Illinois, in front of the town's VFW hall. Buildings in use, magazines still intact, being used as a parking lot. Partially intact, buildings, some radar towers, tourist area, Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Abandoned, replanted with pines. in Nike Missile Sites. FDS. Former missile pads still visible, apparently being used as a storage yard. Magazines probably in good condition, launch area being used for trailer and outside storage. FDS. Largely intact, however the forest has just about won the battle to reclaim its former areas. Has been completely demolished and made into a nature conservatory. Township of Lumberton. Many Nike sites are now municipal yards, communications, and FAA facilities, probation camps, and even renovated for use as airsoft gaming and military simulation training complexes. Buildings torn down, launch pads consist of concrete slabs and bunkers. Six inch top soil cover. Site at end of Adrian Drive. FDS. For instance, the missile field of F. E. Warren Air Force Base includes portions of western Nebraska, northern Colorado, and eastern Wyoming, an area of more than 12,000 square miles. Site was never operational. LA-45DC was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site RP-39 / Z-39 The AADCP was inactivated 1 Sep 1974 along with the remaining Nike Hercules sites. [10] During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Travis battalion assumed responsibility for the remaining active batteries guarding the entire San Francisco region. After the Nike-Hercules site was inactivated in 1966, used by the Air Force until Loring's inactivation in the early 1990s as part of SAC's GCCS (Global Command & Control System. Air Force operations ended 1 October 1972. In the 1980s, water contamination near the base was found to be a health hazard. [16], 413622N 0724129W / 41.60611N 72.69139W / 41.60611; -72.69139 (HA-48-CS). Guided public tours are available JuneSeptember through a local non-profit organization. Launch site now the parking lot for the Children's Theatre of Annapolis and athletic fields. Silos have been deactivated because of treaty obligations, missile obsolescence, and Congressional belt-tightening. The IFC was assigned as an off-base installation to Ellsworth AFB on 25 May 1961. Robinson Dept. Large wooded area around the home appears to be totally redeveloped with no evidence of IFC, although may be parts of the facility in the woods to the southwest of the house. Town of Milford, board of education. Two radar towers still standing and evident, one of which now functions as the base for the Rolnick Observatory telescope. Redeveloped into Marine Mammal Center. Buildings in good condition, magazine being used as tractor trailer parking and storage site. Signage indicates that it is being redeveloped as residential housing. This Cold Warera fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency. Fenced and gated. Figure7shows a missile silo site from the road. The Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 had a yield of 20 kilotons. Private property, with locked fence access. Map showing the areas of the six Minuteman Missile wings on the central and northern Great Plains. But, by the late 50s, the Soviet Union shifted its strategy because those aircraft were vulnerable to attack. Completely rebuilt, with no evidence of a Fire Control Site or radar towers. Totally obliterated and redeveloped into the Parkhurst US Army Reserve Center. Accessible to the public by hiking. Used as the Bedford Electronics Research Annex. Paved over parking lot for trucks.. Now light industrial area, some old IFC buildings still in use. Apparently, magazines are still electrified, and used for covered underground storage. Former double-magazine site abandoned and mostly overgrown with vegetation. missile site called suspicious", "Lumberton's Cold War Legacy: Nike Missile Battery PH-23/25. Part of Army Reserve Center, in back of facility. The Puu Manawahua Radar Station and Base Camp was a W.W.II Aircraft Warning Station, and continued to list in 1947 and 1948 USAF Installation Directories. Exterior of the administration building and launch area can be viewed during the tour. Remains an Army Reserve facility. Both defense areas appear to have been manned by 2nd Battalion, 55th Artillery (Air Defense) at times between 1958 and 1964. time knowing which ones. C-92 Redeveloped into Vernon Hills Athletic Complex. Redeveloped into an office park north of I-88. The units were HHB and B/75th (11/54-9/58), HHB and B/3/562nd (9/58-6/60) and MDArNG B/3/70th (6/60-3/63). Grounds intact. (17,500 mph). FDS. Nothing remains of the IFC except the MTR and TTR towers. Rhode Island Army National Guard, most buildings intact, Magazine area used as a motor pool. Chicago Tonight in Your Neighborhood: Bronzeville Receives Historic Designation. Most buildings in good condition, magazine in good condition. FDS. Now a part of Maheras-Gentry Park, FDS. Remains in secure area, used as a storage area. FDS. Exists in deteriorated condition east of and adjacent to the Miramar Armory of the. IFC buildings in use, housing adjacent abandoned and torn down. The green pond in the upper-right of the photo is the poo pond that processes waste. Residential housing built in place. Some buildings exist, launcher area intact. The AADCP inactivated in 1966. Some are now private residences. Several Buildings standing also some radar towers. C-70 Naperville, Illinois - Nike Missile Sites on Waymarking.com. Dillingham Airport, Above-ground Nike-Hercules launch facilities overgrown with vegetation, no buildings remain abandoned. On 1 October 1961 W-13DC was integrated with USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site RP-54/Z-227. Cleared land, no evidence except a few pipes emerging from below ground; apron off Forest Way still visible. In June 1971, the three remaining Nike Hercules batteries were deactivated. An Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) was established at Omaha AFS, NE in 1959 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. 3) Far Away From Population Centers - Minuteman sites on the sparsely populated Great Plains meant less lives were directly at risk from nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. Units assigned: B/36th 96/55-9/58), B/1/562nd (9/58-12/62), B/1/71st (12/62-/65), B/4/1st (/65-11/68) and MDArNG A/1/70th (11/68-4/74). Each MAF normally commands the missiles in 10 silos but any one MAF may control 50 silos if needed. Perimeter fencing is intact and sturdy. Private ownership. Obliterated. Three sites were deactivated in December 1958 as only Saddle Mountain was converted to the new Nike Hercules. Abandoned IFC site. Redeveloped into a corporate office complex. The first thing that makes this particular route interesting is the still active missile silos that dot the highway from Kimball to the Colorado border. At some later time, probably about 1984, it was transferred back to the Army and assigned to Fort Dix. Magazines appear to be once under asphalted-over parking lot, however, access to one lift platform is now covered with dirt and the magazine is filled with water. This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets. No sign of IFC. Redeveloped into open greenspace with retention ponds. Now obliterated, although largely intact. View waymark gallery. Launch site in good condition. D-57 site demolished, redeveloped into Ford Motor Co. automotive parts distribution center in 2021. Only a few are intact and preserve the history of the Nike project. FDS. FDS. Magazines under motor pool parking area asphalted over. Redeveloped but abandoned; site of a former automobile dealership on Grant Street, now empty. Demolished, Roswell Correctional Center Partially. Doors have been completely covered with dirt. This silo's security gate is 547 feet from the road. Double above-ground magazines, on top of mountain ridge, under US Army control, Both Nike launch facilities overgrown with vegetation, abandoned. The AAFC was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site SM-151 / Z-151. Nothing else is left. Intact, abandoned. During the cleanup, the magazine elevator doors were sealed with asphalt for safety reasons.395216N 0745253W / 39.87111N 74.88139W / 39.87111; -74.88139 (PH-32-LS), 395145N 0752545W / 39.86250N 75.42917W / 39.86250; -75.42917 (PH-67-CS), 402901N 0800950W / 40.48361N 80.16389W / 40.48361; -80.16389 (PI-71-LS), 403138N 0800344W / 40.52722N 80.06222W / 40.52722; -80.06222 (PI-93-CS). The launcher area has occasional tours. Several buildings still in use.
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