TheChief05
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Several individuals have mentioned that they worked or have experience with the Nike Hercules Missile program. I was day dreaming at the desk and thought wow. I spent 20 years providing maintenance services to the "Herc", and before the PATRIOT, the Herc was the premier ADA weapons system in the free world. Yes, in the free world, -my first maintenance experience was with a battery of Dutch operated Hercules. For those younger guys and gals, it was a 2 stage missile that flew at supersonic speed, had separate acquisition and tracking radars and essentially operated very much like the current PATRIOT system. (one major different, Hercules had a high yield warhead variant, mushroom cloud - like) PATRIOT is solely a conventional type warhead.
Little know fact, PATRIOT is actually an acronym, and stands for Phased Array Tracking to Intercept Of Target. It is fielded to 10 different foreign countries and of course, the US.
Appreciate your listening to me,
The Chief 05
Little know fact, PATRIOT is actually an acronym, and stands for Phased Array Tracking to Intercept Of Target. It is fielded to 10 different foreign countries and of course, the US.
Appreciate your listening to me,
The Chief 05