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HM69 Nike Missile Battery
A very short documentary about HM69 which is a Nike Hercules Missile Battery left over from the cold war located in the Everglades National Park in Homestead, Florida. It is open to guided tours at certain times of the year. It is a wonderful cold war historic site and a visit is informative and educational dark tourism. The facility was built as a response to the Cuban Missile crisis and there were many more spread across South Florida, but only this one survives in a somewhat intact state. Although abandoned it stands as a grim reminder of the days of mutually assured destruction, duck and cover and the realistic threat of nuclear Armageddon. This film gives you a better idea of what the HM69 missile battery is and what is what built for.
This video was created in Adobe After Effects and edited using Adobe Premiere Pro. It combines animation with vintage video to tell a story. The vector art was created in Adobe Illustrator and the 3D animation was done in Sketchup. All artwork (except Nike Missile models), animation and editing was done by John Potter of Escape Key Graphics.
The National Park Service is now offering guided tours of HM-69 Nike Hercules Missile Site, one of t
HEADLINE: Video Essay: Historic missile base
CAPTION: A once-forgotten piece of history is now open to the public. The National Park Service is now offering guided tours of HM-69 Nike Hercules Missile Site, one of the best preserved relics of the Cold War in Florida. (March 2)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
Opens with NAT sound of guided tour.
SOT: Right now we are at missile site HM69, which stands for Homestead Miami 69. (:08)
Gregg Halpin/tour guide
NAT sound of still helicopter wing moving with wind.
SOT: This was a missile base that moved from the outskirts of the park when it was first deployed in 1962 and they were intense at the time. And it was built as a permanent facility, because they knew that they were going to stay here as part of a defense of our country. (:16)
NAT sound of guided tour.
SOT: Earlier we gave out handouts. And there was a little turtle on the cover of that. And it was Bert the turtle. They made a move in '51 explaining what children should do, should a nuclear attack happen. (:14)
NAT sound of wind, with medium shot of guided tour.
SOT: But it wasn't until the Cuban missile crisis, my father was in the military, that i really felt a sense of fear when I saw his face when Kennedy explained how we would receive any type of attack from Cuba. It was a fear you could just cut with a knife. And being in the military, I guess he knew he would be involved in some way. (:25)
ENDS with NAT sound
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ABANDONED MISSILE BASE - Forgotten in The Florida Keys
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A decommissioned missile base hides tucked away within the heavily forested Florida Keys. Looking down the old SR-905 in Key Largo, you can barely see the crumbling remains of a former radar site, rusting to dust between hectic overgrowth. The three radars found at this site were the target ranging radar, target tracking radar and the missile tracking radar.
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Nike Missile Site in Everglades National Park
This video shows a tour of the Nike Missile Site in Everglades National Park, Florida.
With subtitles telling the story of the Project Nike missile during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960's.
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Camp Krome: Remnants of the Cold War
In use from 1972 to 1979 this place held a Camp and the HM-95 Nike Missile Site.
CAMPING IN THE EVERGLADES WITH GATORS
We are driving through the Everglades and stopping through to camp out for the night on our way to the Keys!
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Card Sound and HM-40
Card Sound is the other main way off the Keys at Key Largo that serves about 2,000 cars a day compared to US-1's 30,000 cars per day. It is a longer drive, two lane only, and usually a toll-road (although it would stop charging if US-1 became impassable from accidents, and of course the usual evacuation toll lifts).. although the old toll collection system has been removed (cash only) and they are putting in e-tolling, but so far it hasn't gone online. They stopped collecting tolls on August 31st, 2017. They were supposed to collect tolls beginning February at that time. In March it was set for June 2nd. As of July 4th while there is concrete to support sensors, there is no installed ETC equipment or VTC cameras. Despite the claim to need money for bridge renovation ... seems they don't need it that badly.
And yes the car that passed me must have been doing 100-120. I had hoped that this longer-less traveled road would lack the road-ragey drivers. Alas not really. It was friendlier than the US-1 crossing, but only by a bit. Wonder if the lack of tolls has had any affect.
Nike-Hercules was a surface-to-air medium-range high-altitude nuclear-tipped missile. Primarily designed to intercept incoming bombers, it could also do anti-missile and of course surface-to-surface. The South Florida and Alsaka complexes were some of the last to remain operational as ICBMs became the most likely threat. Nike-Hercules was designed to be transportable, however as they needed a lot of ground-support (aka buildings really), they never really were moved. In South Florida there were 4 batteries.
A-Battery (HM-69) consisted of 22 buildings, including missle assembly, barracks, shelters, etc. It is located in the heart of the Everglades National Park (and can be toured). Battery B (HM-40) is located near Key Largo, and has a few missle shelters/launch areas (on the west side of Card Sound) and the intergrade fire control a mile or so away (several radars, antenna systems, etc on the right side, part of the Florida State Park, but is not preserved in any real fashion). It was turned into a radio-beacon location for Homestead AFB, but abandoned in 1996. C-Battery (HM-1) at the Opa Locka airport (the bunkers still exist, but the rails are in bad condition). And D-Battery (HM-95) near Tamiami-trail and Krome which was destroyed by the DOD a few years ago as it was heavily vandalized (proximity to the city) and clearly visible from the rebuild of Krome.
Additionally there is HM-66 which was turned into AreoJet facility, near the everglades (being in the first wave of closures).
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Project Nike
Project Nike, (Greek: Νίκη, Victory, pronounced [nǐːkɛː]), was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953. A great number of the technologies and rocket systems used for developing the Nike Ajax were re-used for a number of functions, many of which were given the Nike name (after Nike, the goddess of victory from Greek mythology). The missile's first-stage solid rocket booster became the basis for many types of rocket including the Nike Hercules missile and NASA's Nike Smoke rocket, used for upper-atmosphere research.
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Everglades National Park | Wikipedia audio article
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Everglades National Park
00:02:21 1 Geography
00:03:02 1.1 Geology
00:05:00 1.2 Hydrography
00:06:03 1.3 Climate
00:07:06 2 Ecosystems
00:08:04 2.1 Freshwater sloughs and marl prairies
00:10:54 2.2 Tropical hardwood hammocks
00:12:46 2.3 Pineland
00:14:53 2.4 Cypress and mangrove
00:17:51 2.5 Coastal lowlands
00:18:51 2.6 Marine and estuarine
00:20:29 3 Human history
00:20:38 3.1 Native peoples
00:23:47 3.2 American settlements
00:25:13 3.3 Land development and conservation
00:29:36 4 Park history
00:34:40 4.1 Restoration efforts
00:38:12 4.2 Park economics
00:39:14 5 Activities
00:40:39 5.1 Trails
00:42:21 5.2 Camping and recreation
00:44:00 5.3 Dark skies site
00:44:29 6 Threats to the park and ecology
00:44:39 6.1 Diversion and quality of water
00:46:46 6.2 Urban encroachment
00:47:58 6.3 Endangered and threatened animals
00:50:43 6.4 Drought, fire, and rising sea levels
00:52:08 6.5 Non-native species
00:54:55 7 See also
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Everglades National Park is an American national park that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida. The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States, and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River. An average of one million people visit the park each year. Everglades is the third-largest national park in the contiguous United States after Death Valley and Yellowstone. UNESCO declared the Everglades & Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve in 1976, and listed the park as a World Heritage Site in 1979, while the Ramsar Convention included the park on its list of Wetlands of International Importance in 1987. Everglades is one of only three locations in the world to appear on all three lists.Most national parks preserve unique geographic features; Everglades National Park was the first created to protect a fragile ecosystem. The Everglades are a network of wetlands and forests fed by a river flowing 0.25 miles (0.40 km) per day out of Lake Okeechobee, southwest into Florida Bay. The park is the most significant breeding ground for tropical wading birds in North America and contains the largest mangrove ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere. Thirty-six threatened or protected species inhabit the park, including the Florida panther, the American crocodile, and the West Indian manatee, along with 350 species of birds, 300 species of fresh and saltwater fish, 40 species of mammals, and 50 species of reptiles. The majority of South Florida's fresh water, which is stored in the Biscayne Aquifer, is recharged in the park.Humans have lived for thousands of years in or around the Everglades. Plans arose in 1882 to drain the wetlands and develop the land for agricultural and residential use. As the 20th century progressed, water flow from Lake Okeechobee was increasingly controlled and diverted to enable explosive growth of the South Florida metropolitan area. The park was established in 1934, to protect the quickly vanishing Everglades, and dedicated in 1947, as major canal building projects were initiated across South Florida. The ecosystems in Everglades National Park have suffered significantly from human activity, and restoration of the Everglades is a politically charged issue in South Florida.
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00:00:56 1 History
00:05:09 1.1 Nike Ajax
00:10:51 1.2 Nike Hercules
00:15:10 1.3 Nike Zeus
00:17:35 1.4 Nike-X
00:20:52 1.5 Decommissioning
00:22:35 2 Specifications
00:22:45 3 Support vehicles
00:23:50 4 Deployment
00:30:54 5 Nike as sounding rocket
00:31:56 6 Survivors
00:32:06 6.1 Bases
00:34:13 6.2 Missiles
00:39:21 7 See also
00:40:10 8 Sources
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Project Nike (Greek: Νίκη, Victory, pronounced [nǐːkɛː]) was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953. A great number of the technologies and rocket systems used for developing the Nike Ajax were re-used for a number of functions, many of which were given the Nike name (after Nike, the goddess of victory from Greek mythology).
The missile's first-stage solid rocket booster became the basis for many types of rocket including the Nike Hercules missile and NASA's Nike Smoke rocket, used for upper-atmosphere research.