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...More than 100 guided-missile launching sites for Nike antiaircraft rockets (which can shoot some 20 miles at supersonic speeds to destroy planes in mid-air). ¶ Several hundred emplaced 90-mm. and radar-aimed Skysweeper antiaircraft guns manned by 20,000 soldiers...
...Skysweeper guns cannot shoot fast enough to hit a supersonic jet or far enough to defend a target, as the gun's range is shorter than the radius of H-bomb destruction. Any bomber within gun range is already close enough to inflict ruinous thermonuclear damage. The Nike rocket has 1,500,000 parts, is complex and unpredictable. Better guided missiles and more launching sites are necessary...
...NIKE MISSILE production is being stepped up fast. The Army has just signed a contract with Douglas Aircraft and Western Electric to convert a 76-acre Quartermaster Corps depot in Charlotte, N.C. into a missile factory employing 1,500 men. First production: early...
...tactical rockets, each fitted to carry either atomic or conventional (TNT) warheads: ¶The "Corporal," a huge supersonic rocket designed to strike selected targets up to 100 miles behind enemy lines. Remotecontrolled, it is a bigger, surface-to-surface cousin of the Army's high-altitude "Nike" antiaircraft guided missiles...
They wrote "Wah-Hoo-Wah" on the Nike...