Military History Monday? Maybe?
“DEW Line Story”, another one from the AT&T Archives, about building radar stations above the Arctic Circle. This looks…cold.
This is another one where I’ve set the start of the video to skip the introduction.
Bonus: Also by way of AT&T, “A 20-year History of Antiballistic Missile Systems”.
This film examines five different experimental and functional antiballistic missile systems worked on by Western Electric and Bell Labs in conjunction with the U.S. Army: the ABM studies, Nike Zeus, Nike-X, Sentinel, and Safeguard. It also shows the Spartan and Sprint systems, the Ballistic Missile Defense Operations Center, the BDMC at Cheyenne Mountain, PAR antennas and console operations, and the BDMC’s link with NORAD. There are lots of images of real – and animated – missile launches.
I’ve linked to some of these (Like Nike Zeus and Nike-X) before, but this covers some I haven’t talked about previously.