Nike missile locations | New Mexico
Nike Missile Sites in New Mexico
Find Nike sites in New Mexico 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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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.
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Walker Defense Area
2 sites in this inventory
Hagerman
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3AG (never operational)
Intact, Roswell Correctional Center
Partially Intact, abandoned
Roswell
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3AG (never operational)
Intact, NMArNG Military Academy
Intact, MNArNG training site
No Defense Area
1 site in this inventory
McGregor Guided Missile Range
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 1B, 2C/18H, 30A/12L-UA, (7L-H)
FDS
FDS
Additional source material
Historical notes, maps, coordinates, and links
The Walker Defense Area was unusual. The sites were selected and built, the battalion activated, batteries were assigned, and then the whole setup was shut down. Many of the personnel were later transferred to the Omaha Defense Area.
Air Force units at Walker AFB during this brief period were the 6th Bombardment Wing and the 58th Fighter Interceptor Squadron.
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).