![]() The launch site is a 85 North Ave and is used as a firefighter training center.īR-94 Monroe The control site was on Eagle Drive extension, presently a US Gov't storage facility. The launch site was on Old Dam Rd, off Pine Dreek, the present site of South Pine Creek Park.īR-73 Westport The control site was on Bayberry Ln at the Merritt Parkway, presently the Westport/Weston Health District Office and the Westport Astronomical Society. The Launch site is located south of Rock Rd near Quirk Industrial Park. Residential houses and a ball park now occupy the site.īR-65 Fairfield The control site was located on One Rod Highway off of Reef Rd and is currently being used as a fire training center by the Town of Fairfield. It is currently used by the town of Millford and an amateur radio club. The IFC site is intact and presently being used by the CT Air National Guard and an Aircraft Control and Warning site.īull Hill Lane in West Haven, currently owned by the Parks and Rec Dept's Nike Site Park.īR- 17 Milford The control site was at Eels Hill Rd, north of Rt 162. ![]() THe launch magazines have been filled in.īR-15 West Haven The control site was on March Hill and is presently used by the Orange Air National Guard and the USAF. The Launch site was on Osborne Land and Deerfield, currently the site of Copper Ridge Farm. The control site is currently being used by the US Forest Service Insect and Disease lab. The control site was 824 Montevideo Rd, current location of the Talcott Mountain Science Center.Įach of these Bridgeport Area Nike Sites have dedicated pages above.īR-04 Ansonia. The launch site was on Hyde Rd off Scott Swamp Road, current site of Stanley Works, Magic Door Division. ![]() The control site was on North Mountain Rd off Loon Lake. The launch site was in Middletown on Mile Lane, currently an Army Reserve center. The control site was on Country Squire Rd, currently the site of elderly housing. Foundations remain and the silos have been filled in. The control site was on Reeves Rd in the Meshomasic State Forest. The old Nike housing area is most likely occupied on Faith Circle (Rainbow Condominiums) off of Hercules Rd. The structure have collapsed and the silos filled in. The property is currently owned by CL&P, the local utility. Nike Tykes Daycare occupies one of the building, a private shooting range occupies the former military indoor range. The control site was at 110 Garden Grove Rd currently used by the Town of Manchester. The launch site was on Phelps Rd at what is now the Army Reserve Center. The control site was on Scantic Rd, present site of the New Testament Church. Please contact us at Ajax missiles.Įach of these Hartford Area Nike Sites have dedicated pages above: If you were stationed at one of the many Nike sites in CT, MA or RI we would love to hear from you. Massachusetts Nike sites can be seen in our companion site: There were also Nike housing units assigned to most batteries and a regional maintenance center in Windsor Locks, CT.Įach of the individual CT Nike sites has its own page, see menu at the top of the page. Having nukes go off above the continental US was thought to be much more desirable than having them go in our cities!Įach Nike site actually consisted of two facilities, a control or radar site known as an "IFC" most often located on a hill for maximum line of sight range and a companion launch site also known as a "battery" which was usually within two miles of the control site. The atomic warhead would be detonated in front of an incoming group of bombers and would in theory destroy or damage them by either the blast or by the radiation effects including thermal and EMP. As Soviet bomber production increased the one missile/one bomber scheme was deemed impractical so the decision was made to equip some of the second generation Nike missiles, the Hercules, with atomic warheads in the 1-40 kiloton range (in comparison, the nuclear bomb which destroyed Hiroshima was approx. The original Nike missile, the Ajax, used a high explosive fragmentation warhead that could successfully destroy or at least damage a single incoming Russian bomber. While it is well known that Connecticut was home to a number of Nike Missile sites back in the fifties and sixties (12 to be exact), very few people realized that by the early-sixties some of these sites housed missiles with nuclear warheads on them!
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