Nike missile locations | Louisiana

Nike Missile Sites in Louisiana

Find Nike sites in Louisiana by town, site ID, or defense area. Browse the original service dates and site notes, with links to existing histories and IFC or launch pages where available.

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1Defense areas

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Before visiting a site: Condition and ownership notes below come from the prior inventory and have not been verified as current. They are not access guidance. Any coordinates in the additional source material are source-listed points, not surveyed property boundaries.

Barksdale Defense Area

2 sites in this inventory

Defense-area history

Service: Nov 1960 - Mar 1966

Missile type and source-listed site notes
Original missile configuration

Nike 3AG/12H/12L-H

IFC condition / owner, legacy note

Intact, Criminal Justice Institute, and Bossier Parish School Board

Launch condition / owner, legacy note

Intact, Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Department, Bossier Parish SWAT field training site

Service: Nov 1960 - Mar 1966

Missile type and source-listed site notes
Original missile configuration

Nike 3AG/12H/12L-H

IFC condition / owner, legacy note

Partially Intact, LSU School of Medicine

Launch condition / owner, legacy note

FDS

Reading the original records

Missile codes and source context

Nike missile and launcher code key

The original inventory uses compact storage and launcher codes, retained in each site's details.

Storage
C: Ajax only, original design. B: Ajax or Hercules, with some elevators modified for Hercules. D: either type, with increased magazine access.
Launcher
A: Ajax; AA: double Ajax; AG: above ground; H: Hercules; L: launcher; K: unofficial Alaskan above-ground designation; U: universal; UA: half universal and half Ajax; UU: double universal.

Launcher conversions to Hercules appear in parentheses in the original code, for example (8L-H).