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Here are some historic US Army demonstration films of missiles. Some of these videos are quite interesting. You will need to use the Microsoft Movie Player to watch them. If you don't have a movie player, you can download one HERE for free.

	Windows Video. Size 2.06 Megs. 12-minute film produced in 1960. It's purpose was to inform the general public on the Army's missile and rocket programs.
	Windows Video. Size 540 KB. Army TACMS - 3-minute tape of R&D test firings.
	Windows Video. Size 368 KB. AVENGER - 1-minute overview tape.
	Windows Video. Size 736 KB. CHAPARRAL - 3-minute overview tape.
	Windows Video. Size 134 KB.CORPORAL - 1-minute overview tape.
	Windows Video. Size 2.82 Megs. DRAGON - 13-minute promotional film on this tank killer.
	Windows Video. Size 323 KB. FOG-M - 1-minute briefing tape.
	Windows Video. Size 408 KB. HAWK - 1-minute briefing film produced in 1957
	Windows Video. Size 235 KB. HAWK - 1-minute clip of HAWK intercepting a QF-80 jet drone over White Sands Missile Range.
	Windows Video. Size .98 Megs. HAWK: "Blaze of Glory" - produced in 1997, this 6-minute film provides an historical overview of the HAWK system (sound, color, 6:05).
	Windows Video. Size 155 KB. HONEST JOHN - 1-minute overview clip (circa 1960).
	Windows Video. Size 712 KB. HONEST JOHN - 2-minute briefing film for Army leadership, 1958.
	Windows Video. Size 436 KB. Jet Vest - 1-minute clip on this experimental device invented by Redstone Arsenal's Thomas Moore.
	Windows Video. Size 230 KB. JUPITER - 1-minute overview clip, 1960.
	Windows Video. Size 963 KB. JUPITER - 3-minute film of the 1st firing of the JUPITER, 1 March 1957.
	Windows Video. Size 369 KB. JUPITER - 1-minute film on the first successful flight of JUPITER, 31 May 1957.
	Windows Video. Size153 KB. 1-minute clip of an unsuccessful JUPITER launch.
	Windows Video. Size 223 KB. JUPITER-C - 1-minute overview of the JUPITER-C.
	Windows Video. Size 1.33 Megs. JUPITER Missile - 8-minute film produced in 1959 (converted to video) on the history of the JUPITER missile. Great archival footage of the first JUPITER flights and the first nose cone recovery (sound, B/W, length 8:15)
	Windows Video. Size 811 KB. JUPITER: Fifteen and Go - another film on the development of the JUPITER.
	Windows Video. Size 1.28. LACROSSE - 8-minute overview film on the LACROSSE.
	Windows Video. Size 80.9 KB. LANCE - 30-second overview.
	Windows Video. Size 652 KB. LITTLEJOHN - 2-minute overview film, 1957.
	Windows Video. Size 130 KB. LITTLEJOHN - 1-minute overview film, 1960.
	Windows Video. Size 386 KB. M-22 - 1-minute clip from a M-22 briefing.
	Windows Video. Size 1.99 Megs. MLRS - 12-minute overview film on the Multiple Launch Rocket System.
	Windows Video. Size 155 KB. NIKE AJAX - short 1-minute film on the NIKE AJAX. A Nike Ajax blew up and killed 12 people in the missile pit.
	Windows Video. Size 7.49 Megs. NIKE HERCULES: The NIKE HERCULES Story - produced in 1958/59 by Herbert Kerkow, Inc of New York, New York for the U.S. Army Ordnance Missile Command (a direct predecessor of AMCOM), this 30-minute public affairs presentation demonstrated for the public the Nike Hercules system. This terrific cold war era film contains footage of a launch complex and firing sequences (that the Army wanted to show at the time). You'll love the script. Don't miss this one!
	Windows Video. Size 138 KB. NIKE HERCULES - 1-minute overview of film.
	Windows Video. Size 441 KB. NIKE HERCULES - 1-minute film clip of a NIKE HERCULES intercepting a Q-5 target missile (late 1950s) .
	Windows Video. Size 381. NIKE HERCULES - 1-minute clip on training.
	Windows Video. Size .99 Megs. NIKE ZEUS - We gave this one up for adoption.
	Windows Video. Size 331 KB. PATRIOT - 2-minute Armed Forces Radio and Television story of the PATRIOT during OPERATION DESERT SHIELD.
	Windows Video. Size 4.24 Megs. PERSHING- "Road to Four Corners" - film about PERSHING testing in SW US during early 60s
	Windows Video. Size 3.87 Megs. PERSHING, Three Decades of - 17-minute history of PERSHING.
	Windows Video. Size 138 KB. PERSHING 1a - 30-second clip of a dual-launch.
	Windows Video. Size 612 KB. REDEYE - 2-minute briefing tape produced for the Army leadership when REDEYE was being introduced (late 1950s).
	Windows Video. Size 182 KB. REDSTONE - 1-minute overview clip.
	Windows Video. Size 143. SERGEANT - 1-minute overview clip.
	Windows Video. Size 372 KB. SS-11 - 1-minute overview clip.
	Windows Video. Size 148 KB. STINGER - late-70s film on the (then) "new" air defense system.
	Windows Video. Size 4.99 Megs. TOW History - produced by the TOW Project Office in the late 1980s, tape provides good historical overview of system .
	Windows Video. Size 639 KB. VIPER - 4-minute overview tape.