Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Douglas Aircraft Company
- Summary
- This is a plastic desktop model of the Nike-Ajax, a U.S. Army ground-launched anti-aircraft missile. These missiles had a solid-fuel motor and booster, a maximum speed of Mach 2.3, a range of 25 miles, and a conventional warhead. Targets were acquired by the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment network radars, whose computers commanded the launch and guided the missile to intercept the beam of a tracking radar. When the missile was close to its target, the computers sent a warhead detonation command. The Nike-Ajax was deployed by the U.S. Army from 1953 into the 1960s, and was also exported to several allied nations.
- Douglas Aircraft made the model and donated it to the Museum in 1958.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Douglas Aircraft Inc.
- Inventory Number
- A19580131000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Plastic missile and base
- Dimensions
- 11in. x 2in. (27.94 x 5.08cm)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19580131000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9dee491e4-0392-452a-ad8f-9bb343584f04
