MIM-3 Nike Ajax
Nike Ajax Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat adalah sebuah rudal udara permukaan (SAM) operasional pertama di dunia untuk, memasuki layanan pada tahun 1954.
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Nike Ajax dirancang untuk menyerang pesawat pembom terbang konvensional pada kecepatan subsonik tinggi dan ketinggian di atas 50.000 kaki (15 km).
Referensi
sunting- Cagle, Mary (30 June 1959). Nike Ajax Historical Monograph. U.S. Army Ordnance Missile Command.
- Federation of American Scientists (29 June 1999). "Nike Ajax (SAM-A-7) (MIM-3, 3A)".
- Lonnquest, John; Winkler, David (November 1996). To Defend and Deter: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Missile Program. USACERL Special Report 97/01. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2012-10-06. Diakses tanggal 2014-03-25.
- Morgan, Mark; Berhow, Mark (1 June 2002). Rings of Supersonic Steel: Air Defenses of the Uniter States Army 1950-1979. Hole In The Head Press. ISBN 9780615120126.
- Westerman, Edward (2001). Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defenses, 1914-1945 (PDF). University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0700614206.
- Barry Leonard, "History of Strategic and Ballistic Missile Defense: Volume II: 1956-1972", DIANE Publishing, 2011
- "Nike: the U.S. Army's Guided Missile System", Western Electric
- The Continental Air Defense Collection Diarsipkan 2019-06-09 di Wayback Machine. at the United States Army Center of Military History
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