Nike Zeus and Derivatives

[trajan]

Ara there any (good quality) Nike Zeus family drawings? I had searched on the web, and found nothing useful. Maybe someone knows a drawing coming from a book or an official doc... Thanks.

family together(๑ゝω╹๑)
White sand photo

 

[sferrin]

I think he meant Zeus A, Zeus B, Spartan. That pic is just a Zeus B with a bunch of other random missiles painted black and white.

 

[trajan]

I think he meant Zeus A, Zeus B, Spartan. That pic is just a Zeus B with a bunch of other random missiles painted black and white.

Oops. Maybe This?

 

[trajan]

Btw. I think Zeus project ends so rapidly
≥﹏≤. Their son"sentinel"only work 6moths then retired.....
Now only GBI and THAAD(maybe) can anty several BM which aiming US homeland(. So why government retired sentinel?

 

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[trajan]

I found a little PDF about this Projecthttps://web.archive.org/web/20130217012808/http://www.smdc.army.mil/2008/Historical/Book/Chap2.pdf

 

[Grey Havoc]

So why government retired sentinel?

Stupidity and insanity, the hallmark of the period in question.

 

[trajan]

So why government retired sentinel?

Stupidity and insanity, the hallmark of the period in question.

sentinel builder：(╥ω╥`)
ARMY：凸(>皿<)凸

 

[Temistocle]

Ara there any (good quality) Nike Zeus family drawings? I had searched on the web, and found nothing useful. Maybe someone knows a drawing coming from a book or an official doc... Thanks.

After searching on the web, I found only some pictures of the Nike Zeus (no good drawings), so I created a drawing by myself starting from those pictures, knowing the dimensions of the Zeus. I needed it to compare it with some other ASAT systems of the Cold War for an article I wrote for an Italian magazine, see below (only ASATs that have flown).

 

[sferrin]

Ara there any (good quality) Nike Zeus family drawings? I had searched on the web, and found nothing useful. Maybe someone knows a drawing coming from a book or an official doc... Thanks.

After searching on the web, I found only some pictures of the Nike Zeus (no good drawings), so I created a drawing by myself starting from those pictures, knowing the dimensions of the Zeus. I needed it to compare it with some other ASAT systems of the Cold War for an article I wrote for an Italian magazine, see below (only ASATs that have flown).

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[Dilandu]

So why government retired sentinel?

Because it was not practical. It was a costly solution for limited-scale defense of "hard" targets - Minutenan ICBM bases. And there was a much more efficient solution: Polaris/Poseidon-armed submarines.

 

[Temistocle]

Ara there any (good quality) Nike Zeus family drawings? I had searched on the web, and found nothing useful. Maybe someone knows a drawing coming from a book or an official doc... Thanks.

After searching on the web, I found only some pictures of the Nike Zeus (no good drawings), so I created a drawing by myself starting from those pictures, knowing the dimensions of the Zeus. I needed it to compare it with some other ASAT systems of the Cold War for an article I wrote for an Italian magazine, see below (only ASATs that have flown).

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I used a low resolution image for copyright reasons...
From left to right, missiles and targets:

USA ASATs:
Bold Orion, USAF, 1958-59
High Virgo, USAF, 1958-59
High Virgo, Inspector, USAF, 1959 (King Lofus IV)
NOTS-EV-1, US Navy, 1958, (NOTSNIK)
Program 505, Nike Zeus, US Army, 1962-67
Program 437, Thor, USAF, 1964-1975
Program 437AP, Thor, USAF, 1965-66
ASM-135, USAF, 1985
ITV Target, USAF, 1985

URSS ASATs:
DS-P1-M Tyulpan, IS Target
Istrebitel Sputnikov (IS), 1968-1993
Tsiklon-2 IS launcher, 1968-1993
79M6 Kontakt, 1978-95

The paper about the USA ASATs is issued in the September number of Rivista Italiana Difesa, in the next month there will be the second part about the URSS ASATs.

 

[sferrin]

Ara there any (good quality) Nike Zeus family drawings? I had searched on the web, and found nothing useful. Maybe someone knows a drawing coming from a book or an official doc... Thanks.

After searching on the web, I found only some pictures of the Nike Zeus (no good drawings), so I created a drawing by myself starting from those pictures, knowing the dimensions of the Zeus. I needed it to compare it with some other ASAT systems of the Cold War for an article I wrote for an Italian magazine, see below (only ASATs that have flown).

View attachment 664448

Any chance of getting enough pixels to read?

I used a low resolution image for copyright reasons...
From left to right, missiles and targets:

USA ASATs:
Bold Orion, USAF, 1958-59
High Virgo, USAF, 1958-59
High Virgo, Inspector, USAF, 1959 (King Lofus IV)
NOTS-EV-1, US Navy, 1958, (NOTSNIK)
Program 505, Nike Zeus, US Army, 1962-67
Program 437, Thor, USAF, 1964-1975
Program 437AP, Thor, USAF, 1965-66
ASM-135, USAF, 1985
ITV Target, USAF, 1985

URSS ASATs:
DS-P1-M Tyulpan, IS Target
Istrebitel Sputnikov (IS), 1968-1993
Tsiklon-2 IS launcher, 1968-1993
79M6 Kontakt, 1978-95

The paper about the USA ASATs is issued in the September number of Rivista Italiana Difesa, in the next month there will be the second part about the URSS ASATs.

Any chance of it in English? Also, looks like you forgot SM-3.

 

[Temistocle]

Any chance of it in English? Also, looks like you forgot SM-3.

Not at the moment... The papers deal with the Cold War ASATs ('til the beginning of the '90), so SM-3 is not included

 

[JimK]

Ara there any (good quality) Nike Zeus family drawings? I had searched on the web, and found nothing useful. Maybe someone knows a drawing coming from a book or an official doc... Thanks.

I not sure that this meets your quality criterion, but I put this lineup together using images from the 6 November 1960 issue of Flight and a image of Zeus A found on the Internet. The lengths I have used are:
Ajax - 418", 10.62 m.
Hercules - 492", 12.50m.
Zeus A - 531", 13.49m.
Zeus B - 602", 15.29m.
TX-135 booster used on both Zeus A & B - 196.8", 5.0m.

 

[Bill S]

I found a little PDF about this Projecthttps://web.archive.org/web/20130217012808/http://www.smdc.army.mil/2008/Historical/Book/Chap2.pdf

I found the entire book here: Seize The High Ground

 

[NMaude]

I just stumbled across this Nike Zeus B video on YT:

Development continued, producing Improved Nike Hercules and then Nike Zeus A and B. Zeus, with a new 400,000 lbf thrust solid-fuel booster, was first test launched during August 1959 and demonstrated a top speed of 8,000 mph but had certain deficiencies and was renamed Spartan launched 1967. Production of the Zeus was deferred in 1961 and phased out during 1963 in favor of a specific ABM system initially designated Nike X but later renamed Sentinel.

 

[4decaa]

Spent my day yesterday visiting some old installations north of the golden gate and checked out some Nike Hercules missiles, and thought some of you might appreciate this. image 4 is of the Hercules’ warhead container, and images 11 and 12 are cutaways of the Ajax (conventional) variant. I also have a video of the missile being lifted from the underground storage chamber via elevator, which i’ll send a link to aswell. Good day!