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San Vicente Mountain Park is a former
San Vicente Mountain Park is a former Nike Missile
The United States Army's Nike Ajax was the world's first operational guided surface-to-air missile (SAM), entering service in 1954. Nike Ajax was designed to attack conventional bomber aircraft flying at high subsonic speeds and altitudes abov ...
Radar/Control Site in Southern California
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. The site is located on land owned by the
city of Los Angeles
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above the Encino Reservoir along the unpaved portion of Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive is a street and road in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California. It is named after pioneering Los Angeles civil engineer William Mulholland. The western rural portion in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties is nam ...
west of the 405 freeway
Interstate 405 (I-405) is a major north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway in Southern California. The entire route is known as the northern segment of the San Diego Freeway. I-405 is a bypass auxiliary route of I-5, running along the ...
."L.A.'s Cold War Sentinels" ''Los Angeles Daily News'' Sunday October 3, 1993 pages 1,8,9
See also
*List of Nike missile sites
The following is a list of Nike missile sites operated by the United States Army. This article lists sites in the United States, most responsible to Army Air Defense Command; however, the Army also deployed Nike missiles to Europe as part of the ...
References
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