MIM-3 Nike Ajax

Nike AjaxAngkatan Darat Amerika Serikat adalah rudal udara permukaan (SAM) operasional pertama di dunia untuk, memasuki layanan pada tahun 1954.

Nike Ajax dirancang untuk menyerang pesawat pembom terbang konvensional pada kecepatan subsonik tinggi dan ketinggian di atas 50.000 kaki (15 km).

Referensi

• 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. 
• 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 at the United States Army Center of Military History

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