LaunchEquipment | Of course this was an incident that never officially happened. I proceeded with the test at 3 AM. U.S.targets | We were located in a company area but somewhere on the range a way out on the desert with absolutely nothing to do. Based on the 'time to fly' of the missile this limited overall battery rates to about one launch every couple of minutes.[36]. MOS 16b20 about being thrown from a moving Painting Missiles in a non-ventilate area. SL-40 | However, it makes the determination of range difficult or impossible. In one of the many Mig sorties that came south of the DMZ the sites went up a step in DEFCON and then back down. A short in the cables (again the official explanation) to the launcher caused the missile to launch without the MTR being ready. [9]:62, Meanwhile, the Air Force scrambled to bring BOMARC to operational status, and on 1 September 1959 declared the 46th Air Defense Squadron at McGuire Air Force Base operational. There was one location, which, as a courtesy, you were to call them at 2:45 AM and warn them the test would start at 3:00 AM. Luckily spread eagle. Even with an estimated 2000 Army, Marines, and ARVN to try to protect us our life expectancy was less than 90 minutes (probably closer to 90 seconds) after the wheels stopped rolling. Patriot's much higher accuracy allowed it to dispense with the nuclear warhead, and Hercules was the last US SAM to use this option. To: webmaster@nikemissile.org Solid fuel rockets can remain stored for years and are generally very difficult to ignite without an extended period of applied flame. heat to damage the tissues permanently. RedCanyonRange | The mishap led to the release of four nuclear weapons. Martin produced the T48E1 and E2 designs for Ajax used a fiberglass casing that was destroyed by small explosives, but this proved overweight and did not boost the Ajax to the required speed. although not considered potentially hazardous, is stipulated by AR 40-583 as the 3/71 in Germany in 66, 67, 68 and loved every moment. Prior to launch, the Missile Tracking Radar (MTR) locked on to the transponder in the selected missile. itself after a power surge or drop. Subject: Inherent Dangers of Nike work, From: Michael Williquette It is relatively easy to jam a conventional radar by sending out additional pulses of radio signal on the same frequency. It is relatively easy to jam range information on monopulse radars like the TTR by sending out false return signals. Going to ag shack and meeting mister brown bear on the way or going to pick up mail from main post and getting run over by a moose in rut. The "simulated target" appears to be purely simulated, not a drone. Working with nuclear weapons, high explosives, errant electric It is not clear in existing sources why the design was named "Nike B" and not "Nike IB", given that the Nike Zeus was known as "Nike II". Radar | Nuclear-armed Nike Hercules missiles were deployed in the United States, Greece, Italy, Korea and Turkey, and with Belgian, Dutch, and U.S. forces in West Germany. Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 6:39:30 PM About 5 minutes in a confined space with that stuff had you seeing pretty green stars. Posterior subcapsular cataracts. Bell also proposed a much more modified design known as "Nike Hercules" with an enlarged upper fuselage able to carry the XW-7 warhead of up to 40kt (170TJ)[9]:57 that wouldn't fit in the existing fuselage. [N 1] A larger Nike with greatly improved range would not only help address this sort of attack, but also allow a single base to defend a much larger area, lowering the overall costs of deploying a widespread defensive system. I called again at 2:55 AM but still no answer. Blown fuse in a nuclear warhead de-mating procedures, never saw the Italians run so fast. This was a common complaint by the Air Force, who noted that bombers had the ability to attack from as much as 50 miles (80km) while the Nike was only comfortable launching at about 25 miles (40km). Like the Ajax, the Hercules used a transponder in the missile. The rocket will be a full scale replica of the Nike Hercules missile. Falling down the ladder leading to the We were high as a kite from the fumes of the trichlorethelene. [17] This was answered most forcibly not by the Army, but the Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson, who wrote in Newsweek that "one hard solid fact remerges above them all: no matter what the Nike is or isn't, it's the only land-based operational anti-aircraft missile that the U.S. There are certain diseases that may be service-connected if the disease occurred as a result of the radiation exposure. Turn a 2 bay vehicles manit. Used to clean power supplies and chassis on antennas. Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 8:14:23 PM [21], The AMMO shot took place on 1 July 1958, successfully intercepting a simulated 650-knot (750mph; 1,200km/h) target flying at an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,000m) and a slant range of 79 miles (69nmi; 127km). In each instance, the intensity I reported as ordered. We then drove around out on the desert jumping over sand dunes with the jeeps. The active seeker system was later dropped to lower costs. At the same time, there were increasing concerns that higher speed aircraft would be able to launch their warheads at the extreme range of the Nike bases. At its peak, it was deployed at over 130 bases in the US alone. In maintenance at Redstone Arsenal after completing the radar and computer course: Having one of my technicians fire up the TT Radar after he took apart the waveguide and stuffed a rag in it to keep the moisture out small fire! LaunchSet | A 23 October 1954 report stated that "Concurrent with the prosecution of the NIKE I and NIKE B programs, studies and research and development must be conducted to insure that the NIKE equipment is modernized to the maximum extent within the limits of current technology and economics of improvement as compared to investment in a new system ". Oozlefinch | Vets at Homestead AFB had to treat them- a tricky procedure for both the vet and the dog handler. The Hawk locked on and blew the whole back half of the bus off. the Improved Nike-Hercules radar antennas. cancers of the bile ducts, bone, brain, breast, colon, esophagus, gall bladder, liver (primary site, but not if cirrhosis or hepatitis b is indicated), lung (including. Pulling out 2 missiles (one of each type) at 2am so the IFC could do calibration. Another development for the anti-ballistic missile role later emerged as the much larger LIM-49 Nike Zeus design. HerculesMissile | Greece | This Nike Hercules Missile Site is dedicated to all soldiers, family members and friends that served in Delta 2-1- ADA -32nd AADCOM, Dichtelbach, Germany. Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:33:29 PM BudHalsey | Over the years, the vacuum-tube guidance system, as well as the complex fire control systems' radars, suffered from diminishing manufacturing source (DMS) issues. At Shot Morgan on October 7, two sets of missile This was carried out in a protected area behind a large berm, in order to protect the rest of the site from an accidental explosion during fuelling. Subject: Nike site in Germany Any single battery could only launch a single missile at a time, due to the limited number of radars, computers and operators. He turned out okay! head wound from the fins (Crew The TTR was operated by three operators (range, elevation and azimuth). On 15 November 1956, the new missile was officially renamed as the Nike Hercules, as part of DA Circular 700-22, while the Nike I becoming Nike Ajax. (everyone), Working down range at night and maximum permissible exposure level for personnel subjected to RF radiation B3/71 (Turks welding covers), Or a | LA-43 | Carl Durling C-2-52 1961-62: The decision to cancel the deployment was one of the best decisions made during the war (at least from my point of view). Links | A short period after launch the actual location, i.e. From: Barry Hayes [23] The first deployments in Europe began in 1959. The occasion was the national commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Defense Department. I was at Delta Team 43rd Artillary with our headquarters in Duran. The last Hercules missile was launched in the Sardinian range of Capo San Lorenzo in Italy on November 24, 2006.[34]. Pittsburgh | Finding One of these locations was directly above the elevator, the others were reached by manually pushing the missiles off the elevator to the launcher along rails. The TRR was operated by the track supervisor. LaunchEquipment | Current Events | open pit. Crests | [38], Hercules could carry either a nuclear warhead or a conventional high-explosive warhead (T-45 fragmentation type). 33 feet, Systems 538-594 and A nuclear weapons mishap occurred on January 17, 1966, over Palomares, Spain, when a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber and KC-135 tanker aircraft collided. The Hawk guys at MacGregor had their fun too. R&D, 2d Bn 51st Arty Individual Training Guide, New 2nd Lieutenants trying to get BCO "[9]:63, Plans had been made to test the Hercules' W-7 warhead in a live-fire exercise in 1959 as part of "Operation SNODGRASS". Information from the MTR and TTR continued to be fed to the computer for updating the intercept point based on any actual changes in either the missile or the target location, speed or direction. The Nike Hercules began replacing the Nike Ajax in 1958. NoSleep | The resulting reflections may present a potential hazard to personnel working in the vicinity of the passive antennas. Learn more about Diseases Related to Exposure to Ionizing Radiation resulting reflections may present a potential hazard to personnel workingin Happened to a PVC Zachary at C5-6th in Baumholder Fg around 1977-78. The Nike Hercules missiles were positioned underground in the silos. NY53 | platforms, In the danger zone of a radiating antenna, German citizens taking pot shots at the Nice run in full gear. Gilbert Burke | Humor | [6]:20-30,37, This did not do much to stop the squabbling, nor did it solve the problems that led to the issues in the first place the fight over Hercules and BOMARC and related anti-missile developments. PatrickMackay | Prior to assuming hot status we had to run a drill. Scoring, and other routine soldier duties like guard duty, K.P., painting and Setting in a fox hole for 8 hrs during war games in the winter. Non-malignant thyroid nodular disease. In the case of Hercules, all of the radars were typically mounted on (concrete) elevated platforms to improve their line-of-sight. TD Barnes | stomp up the steps of the tower Then put it back in the barn. As Chief Site Missile Equipment Engineer, getting a 2 AM phone call at my off base home because a visiting Colonel decided to do an unscheduled snap launch drill during a rain and later lightening storm and got a missile stuck in the raised position on the top of the elevated launch area. Unzipping the door on the TTR radome only Several years later I was working for AT&T when I ran across an article in an AT&T magazine about Murray Hill in New Jersey. Soon after design work started, the Army requested that the existing liquid fuel engine be replaced with a solid fuel design, for a variety of reasons. As the larger Hercules would be easier to adapt to a longer-range form, the Army selected it as the winning design. TrainingGuide | This happened to a 16B [18][19] The resulting flap led to calls for Nickerson to be court-martialed and was compared to the Billy Mitchell court-martial in the 1920s. Each of these was a steel tube, and held together in this fashion they presented a considerable range safety issue when they fell back to the ground after launch. Boss said it couldn't be done, we said give us 2 weeks, we ran into a little trouble acquiring a power converter that we could operate off the tank system to power the radar. The boosters were equipped with four large swept-wing fins at the extreme rear, behind the rocket exhaust, using a diamond cross-section suitable for supersonic lift. Paint a Hercules trainer missile put it on a ready round trailer. In one Redeye shoulder launch test there was a fault in the software that caused the missile to lock full left if it failed to acquire a hot target. This information is base upon the average power outputs and It was later revealed that only one of the sixty missiles at the site was actually functional at that time. IrwinAnger | I heard he also relieved himself of all that was in his lower intestine. has. The TRR system combatted this by allowing switching between two very different set of frequencies. Ionizing Radiation Veterans may have been exposed to ionizing radiation during military service if, for example, they participated in nuclear weapons testing. We were short mechanics so we were working 24 hours on and 24 off. 240 feet, Systems Then he said "the emerald in the amplifier was melting also; oh my God stop, stop now!" Part of the rush was due to the newly evolving understanding of the effects of nuclear weapons on radar systems, which led to serious concerns about various weapon's systems ability to operate after nearby nuclear explosions. The intensity of the beam from the target tracking radar in BR-17 | Missile Tracking Radar-Nike-Ajax Mode 126 feet Target Tracking Radar-Wide Pulse Mode 230 feet Transmitting antennas in the non-scanning mode should not be positioned so as to radiate into areas occupied by passive antennas. HIPAR would detect targets separately and "hand off" to the LOPAR and TTR so those systems could remain largely unchanged and able to launch either Hercules or Ajax. Crests | [11] This could be increased even further using stand-off missiles, like those currently under development by all of the nuclear-armed forces for just this reason. azimuth, elevation and range of the missile were displayed on the plotting boards. [9]:5657, "Nike Ajax" used a slightly modified Nike missile, largely a re-arrangement of the internal components, making room for the 15kt (63TJ) WX-9 "gun-type" warhead also being developed as an artillery round. Trophy | @MacGregor We, the 333rd, were briefly on orders to go to Vietnam as an ABM unit (like HUNH??!) Everglades National Park. Personnel should not be permitted to enter areas where they may be exposed to levels above 10 milliwatts per square centimeter. The project had moved several times, and was now in late development as the BOMARC. Guy in the IFC gets Dear John letter go nuts, sent him to the hospital. 145 missile batteries were deployed during the cold war. Tom Cluff | Hercules | Definitions | Testing was unexpectedly cancelled before the W-7 could be fired.[21]. HA-08 HA-25 | Smaller deltas in front of the main wings, and blended into them, provided roll control with very small flaps mounted to pivot along a line roughly 45 degrees from the line of the fuselage. The driver had just stepped around behind a dune to relieve his bladder when the bus blew up. Similar experiments for Hercules boosters led to the XM-61 single-chamber booster, but when the XM-42 cluster proved to be even less expensive than expected, this effort was also dropped. Had a medic but he had nothing to help with not even an aspirin. Note that this has no effect on the determination of the direction to the target, which is the same for both the original and jammer pulses. Relive & share the memories of your service time with your brothers & sisters in arms today. When the command came to raise elevator everything started moving, the elevator started upward, the erector beam was rising and the magazine doors did not open. Eating out of marmite cans 2 times a day every other day for years. 7923 carlton arms rd, apt b (1,726.23 mi) indianapolis, in, in 46256. [35] Early models cost about US$55,250 each,[35] while most recent cost estimate, from Japan, was US$3.0 million. Eventually we started seeing things that looked to be about an inch square and different lengths. Development of the Nike Hercules took place in the early 1950s and deployment commenced in 1958. Haul it back to battery the same day. Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012. LA-88 | The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center. [6]:20, In 1953, Project Nike delivered the world's first operational anti-aircraft missile system, known simply as Nike. Eating C rations dated 1958 ( it was 1973) and 1948 (it was 1974). How [36], The entire sequence of events from decision to launch to actual launch normally took about 36 seconds. PatrickMackay | Granted sovereignty to the marshall islands, including bikini, in the 1980s. We had been working on the cable cleaning for quite some time when he came by to check on us. Still at Redstone: Having a generator mechanic switch out generators and not have it in phase with the other generator running to the van. The occasion was the national commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the defense department. It was only winter time. My MOS was 22f20 Nike electronic maintenance and warhead specialist. Radar | Use of Trichlorethelene: I can remember when I was an E-2 or PFC at Site SF-88. When the missile neared the intercept point a command signal was sent to the missile to explode.[36]. He also testified that the Nike-Hercules missiles had atomic warheads and that he felt that he had significant exposure to ionizing radiation because of his military duties. someone (people) is down range, Rebuilding berms and equipment The first Nike Ajax missile site became operational at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1954. Each Nike battery consisted of two or three areas; IFC, LA and general. List, by MOS, of likely extent of exposure to asbestos. Subject: THULE Greenland. The Nike Hercules, initially designated SAM-A-25 and later MIM-14, was a surface-to-air missile (SAM) used by U.S. and NATO armed forces for medium- and high-altitude long-range air defense. This information was displayed on plotting boards.[36]. The LA consisted to a maximum of four launching sections, each section consisted of an underground storage area, an elevator to move missiles to and from the surface launchers, and four aboveground firing locations. Germany 1962: As Duty driver I get a call from the CQ. Chicago was slated to shortly begin receiving its Hercules upgrades. down range (two MPs injured), Last My name is Michael Williquette. continually strafing the site, Icy mountain roads that automotive vehicles slide on. Gilbert Burke | To entertain ourselves we went to the motor pool and checked out some jeeps. Hercules also offered the ability to attack pre-located ground targets, after feeding in the coordinates in an operation that took about five minutes. Engineers continued work on getting a second missile operational at McGuire, but the Air Force went ahead with plans to open the Suffolk County Missile Annex by 1 January 1960. I had one thing to do I drove through them, they all got clear. Although Hercules had demonstrated its ability to successfully engage short-range missiles, the capability was not considered very important. Going to and from sick call in the back of or 5/4 or 2 ton tactical truck. AttackonUSSR? The Hawk went skipping along the sand dunes in heat seeking mode looking for something hot. Browse 36 nike hercules missile stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Alaska | NY56 | Nike Hercules was included in SALT I discussions as an ABM. I reviewed what I had done with the Captain and the test instructions. He opened up the escape hatch door to ventilate the panel room and made us get out of the launching area for the rest of the day. The radar can continue to locate the target in elevation or azimuth because all of the signals come from the same location, but the receiver cannot easily determine which pulse was sent by the radar and which was sent by the electronic countermeasures (ECM) on the target aircraft, which is needed to measure the time-of-flight. The missile went full left rudder looking for and found the only hot target around, the hot tube it had just left. Approximately 25,000 Nike Hercules were manufactured. We are in search of all veterans that served here, Originally D-5-1-ADA. Physicists use these two adjustment factorstype of radiation and sensitivity of tissueto convert from measures of radiation absorption to measures of effective dose. Body parts sucked into cooling fans; And memorandum to chief of engineers from dcslog. SF-51 | Dangers | As soon at the TTR was locked on to a target, an analog computer (later digital) continually computed a suitable intercept point in the sky and an expected 'time to fly' of the missile based on information from the TTR and basic performance information about the missile. Over its lifetime, significant effort was put into the development of solid state replacements for the vacuum tube-based electronics inherited from the early-1950s Ajax, and a variety of mobile options. [20], It did, however, allow development of Hercules to continue, and the system was soon preparing to deploy. Re: Trichloroethylene, From: "Tom de Grom" Back 1 1/2 hrs turn in vehicle get off for payday. 1969: Attack on USSR? Unfortunately the engineers had failed to remove the cheater cable which prevented the doors from opening. You may be entitled to disability compensation if these military exposures resulted in a disease or injury. while on field exercises in the to RF radiations of hazardous intensity levels. F16 buzz the IFC so the IFC made the F16 light come on (lock on the F16). [N 4] The LOPAR provided rough range, azimuth and limited altitude or elevation information to the operators of the Target Tracking Radar (TTR), who would manually slew the TTR onto the target. Subject: Danger and Fun, From: "Jim Derendinger" RedCanyonRange | One morning we ran the HIPAR antennas up into position and all the interlock lights lit so I lit up the transmitter and suddenly every neon lamp in the ACQ van starts flashing on and off which I quickly realized was in time with the antenna rotation. Due to the nature of these fuels, extreme caution had to be used whenever the missiles were moved or unloaded for maintenance. [35] Three versions were produced, MIM-14A, B and C. The differences between these versions are not known. SC for Disabilities Resulting From Exposure to Ionizing Radiation. 2nd of the 52nd | Subject: Nike Herc night time thriller. fragments moving same war head Government mistakenly told them it was safe to return to their home island. Needless to say the engineering section chief and his assistant got read the riot act. At Redstone Nike radar range: Just for fun, on a special project, a group of 3 Nike civilians and 2 military, John H. and myself, took components out of a TTR and the Control trailer and made a radar that would fit inside an M48 Tank. hospital (those deemed sickest The civilian on the phone and two other scientists received a Noble Prize for discovering cosmic background radiation in space, the C.O.B.E. Hercules, still known officially as Nike B at this point,[N 2] grew to become a much larger design. Good luck to any fishing boats at that point of the ocean. Acquisition Radar Systems 502-537-Non-scanning The 333rd supposedly had the only two mobile ABM units stationed in the US. The Nike Hercules was a command-guided, long-range, high-altitude anti-aircraft missile. I know.. it's not possible.right. Hercules was designed from the start to operate from Ajax bases. Subject: More dumb stuff, From: R. Alderson / SP5 Then I remembered that the civilian said he had been in the antenna cleaning and had just left, missing a dose of thousands of watts of RF energy- a close call. Hercules batteries in the US were generally placed in older Ajax bases, using their underground storage and maintenance buildings. After the phase-out of the Nike Ajax system, sites B-05, B-36, and B-73 remained supplied with Hercules missiles. Rising Star System with elevator mounted launchers. Once the two are in the truck we head back to the unit only to be confronted by a mob of men that wanted our passengers. The problem was the missile launcher itself, and especially the large HIPAR radar, which presented a formidable mobility problem. I just returned from the seattle va hospital and i am now on the va health registry for occupational exposure of a us veteran during military service with the hawk ada missile system. Links | Otherwise the LOPAR was used. (wrecked to say the 2 people pulling/pushing by hand a 10,710 pound missile to a launcher. I also showed him where in the log I made two calls when only one was required. The location was downtown Huntsville, Alabama. I was a trainer for HqBn. NoSleep | However, as it protected a much greater area, not as many sites were needed to provide coverage of potential targets. The M-36E1 was a steel rectangle with electric and hydraulic components and a large erecting beam supported by movable supports. The WX-9, like all gun-type designs, was long and thin, originally designed to be fired from an 11in (280mm) artillery piece, and easily fit within the Nike fuselage. Engineers had been in earlier in the day to bleed the elevator locking bars which could only be accessed by cheating the system so the magazine doors would not open. (Me), Having a security alert at night Tents were only 8 to 10 feet from the building they were rebuilding. None of these were adopted, in favor of much more mobile systems like the MIM-23 Hawk. Not only were the duties on a Alaska | A dual-launch followed on 24 July, with the first round destroying its target with the T45, and the second with the instrument package flying one second behind. They saw this as an extension of the Army's existing "point defence" role, and as a valuable backup to their own manned interceptors. to find the rookie down in the van has the antenna pointed at you and it's on. Beginning in FY 1961 the older warheads were replaced by W-31 Mod 0 warheads, with yields of 2 kt (Y1) or 30 kt (Y2). TerryFetterman | [9] It was normally deployed in fixed bases with a central radar and control site (Integrated Fire Control area or IFC) separated from the launcher area (LA). Ordnance | [26] Engineering was complete in 1958 and entered low-rate production in May 1959. [15] Minimum range had a ground radius of approximately 10,000 yards (30,000ft; 9,100m) and an altitude of approximately 20,000 feet (6,100m) 20,000ft.[15], Throughout the early Nike evolution, the then-new Air Force had been encouraged by the deployment of the missile systems. Think of being in the worlds biggest microwave oven, ouch! SF-87 | fracture)? The first HIPAR was tested at White Sands between 14 April 1960 and 13 April 1961, starting with two Ajax launches that passed 14 yards and 18 yards from the drone targets, and a further 17 Hercules launches that were generally successful. Finding a Nike Hercules' warhead armed [9]:6162, Eventually, in November the new Secretary of Defense, Neil H. McElroy announced both systems would be purchased. We looked everywhere for the slug and SASCOM came in to search for it too. Chair During development the Air Force continued its Project Wizard while the Army started its Project Plato studies for dedicated anti-missile systems. Thanks to the good folks at the Redstone airfield, while they weren't looking, it only took 3 weeks before we had an operating radar. whom was escorting with me at Once a month at 3 AM on the first Sunday the top five channels were tested for one minute each, timed with a stop watch. Four Nike batteries were normally organized into a single battalion.[36]. General Electric demonstrated a prototype on 11 February 1964. made it work :), Unsymmetrical Dimethyl Hydrazine - NIKE Ajax starter fluid, Armed military aircraft (nuclear?) It found one a short distance away where a bus was idling at an intersection waiting for the all clear. Ajax | 127 feet, Missile Tracking The Army then began its own series of press releases under what they called "Project Truth". The last active Nike Ajax batteries were relieved of their mission in December 1961, followed by the last Army National Guard unit in May 1964. The House eventually came to support the Defense Secretary's position as stated in the Master Air Defense Plan, retaining Hercules while reducing BOMARC and SAGE. BOMARC proved extremely expensive, difficult to maintain in operation readiness, had questionable performance, and was displaying a continued inability to reach operational status. R&D, 2d Bn 51st Arty Individual Training Guide. Its warhead also allowed it to be used in a secondary surface-to-surface role, and the system also demonstrated its ability to hit other short-range missiles in flight. As a PFC instructor for the Missile and Launcher school at Fort Bliss: Having someone raising the launcher without taking the "boots" off the cylinders Watch out below! BudHalsey | LA-43 | We never found the round and I am not sure what happened to the Belgian soldier but for all I know he is still in jail. Current Events | However, as rumours of a ban on atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons spread, SNODGRASS became a crash project to be completed before 1 September 1958 at any available site the Nevada Test Site was fully booked with the existing Project AMMO testing series. See hearing transcript at pp. Members | The Captain said "my Specialist called you twice as a courtesy before the test took place but nobody answered the phone". HA-08 HA-25 | DISTANCE, AJI High Power History | Air Force call the Army about it. In 1946, the USAAF also started two early research projects into anti-missile systems in Project Thumper (MX-795) and Project Wizard (MX-794). 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