Nike Missile Base LA88
Channel: 909 Adventures - Urbex & More
Date: 2021-02-22

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Today were checking out the LA-88 Nike missile site in Chatsworth Ca.

A LITTLE HISTORY:

LA-88 WAS ONE OF THE few dozen Nike missile bases located around LA to protect the civilian population and military industrial sites from Soviet attack and was in operation from 1957-1974. In order to protect this vital arsenal, the Los Angeles area air defense system became the first in the nation to use Army sentry dogs to protect missile sites. In November 1958, four sentry dogs and their handlers began patrolling the Chatsworth missile launch site.

    While the surrounding areas are controlled by the Federal Parks Service, the site itself is used by the Los Angeles Police Department (L.A.P.D.) as a site to train officers in both S.W.A.T. and Counter-terrorism.  The grounds of the site are riddled with bullet casings from training exercises, and what remains of a city bus.  The buildings and walls exhibit graffiti ranging form individual pieces to dialogues including everything from hate speech to pleas for peace. The site itself is comprised of two areas, one being the launch site that is closed to the public, and the other, just across the road where administrative buildings once stood at the center of a circular parking lot.  Up the hill is the site's radar area.

It is now owned by the CA Civilian Conservation Corps. Although long removed from its original purpose, much remains intact and can be seen from the road. Many buildings are still standing, and one of the covers of the missile silo is opened.

Project Nike (Greek: Νίκη, "Victory", pronounced [nǐːkɛː]) was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953. A great number of the technologies and rocket systems used for developing the Nike Ajax were re-used for a number of functions, many of which were given the "Nike" name (after Nike, the goddess of victory from Greek mythology). The missile's first-stage solid rocket booster became the basis for many types of rocket including the Nike Hercules missile and NASA's Nike Smoke rocket, used for upper-atmosphere research.

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