No SAM for USA?

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Note NIKE-AJAX last site, Norfolk VA. was deactivated in late 1963. NIKE-HERCULES last sites in Florida were deactivated in late 1979. Sorry for omission.
Regards,
Pat

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Well this is more in line with the original question, the HAWK missile appears to have entered service with the USA from
August 1959 to 1 April 1994 and March-April 1997 when the last ARNG HAWK battalion (Ohio) was deactivated. Replaced by the PATRIOT (For USA) and primarily by the STRINGER/AVENGER (For ARNG) missiles. It entered service with the USMC in 1960 and is still the primary battlefield system used by them currently. It has also been successfully used in an anti-ballistic missile role. It apparently has never been fired in anger by either service but, has a very successful record outside the U.S. (Israel and Kuwait)
see refs. for further details and background.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/hawk.htm,
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-23.html
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/...hawk-specs.htm,
http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/systems/HAWK.html,
and http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/ for great overview of most US systems.

Of course the Pics:



Have a good night all!!
Regards,
Pat

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It entered service with the USMC in 1960 and is still the primary battlefield system used by them currently. It has also been successfully used in an anti-ballistic missile role. It apparently has never been fired in anger by either service but, has a very successful record outside the U.S. (Israel and Kuwait)
see refs. for further details and background.

Are you sure about that in terms if the US Marines? I figured they got rid of there's 10-12 years back. I did find this on wikipedia: United States US Marine Corps - (phased out of US service in 2002.

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JohnAbrams21 I stand corrected and missed this in reviewing my own refs. Did some more digging and the "swag" seems to be late 2002 to early 2005 but most point to 2002. The loss of the HAWK III left the CORPS without a medium range system. This was later filled by the PATRIOT system hence I believe the "swag" in the dates by a couple of sources. The ARMY appears to be an allie in supporting the CORPS in maintaining a med to long range system, hence the MEADS system. MEADS is being jointly developed with Germany and Italy.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/.../corps-sam.htm this discusses that intial process. These are more up to date concerning MEADS itself.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/meads.htm and
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/...eads-chron.htm

Regards,
Pat