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Aircraft changed the style of warfare forever, and by the end of World War II anti-aircraft guns had taken over the key defensive role at Fort Hancock. The Cold War era brought a change from anti-aircraft guns to supersonic radar guided air defense missiles that could intercept jet warplanes. These surface-to-air, Nike Ajax and Nike Hercules missiles were housed here between 1954 and 1974. Soldiers assigned to the Nike missile defenses worked in one of two locations: the Radar Area, known as the Integrated Fire Control Area (IFC), or the Missile Launch Area.
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