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Nike Missile Specifications:
Length: 41 Feet
Width: 11 Feet 5 inches
Crew:
Weight: 10,600lbs
Speed: 2,730mph
Range: 86 miles
Armament:
1,000lb HE Fragmentation Warhead or up to 42 Kiloton Yeild Nuclear Warhead. High explosive warheads would have been used against single bombers. Nuclear warheads would have been used against multiple bombers.
Entered Service: 1963
Unit Cost: $
Neal Pritchett of Wisconsin has an excellent page on Nike Missile launch sites and their deployment:
http://www.notpurfect.com/travel/nuke/nike.html
There's an excellent diagram of the tracking and deployment of Nike Missiles against enemy Soviet bombers. Also Neal has photos of the remains of a Nike Missile base in Waukesha Wisconsin. Some of the buildings and radar platforms are still intact and of course the concrete launch pads are still in place.