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The US Army was going to switch from Nike Ajax to Nike Hercules, a virtually entirely new missile. When land based Talos started testing Hercules was still on the drawing board. The switch could have been made and the interchangeability to the Talos with existing Navy ones would have kept production costs down. Considerable modification of existing magazines and fire controls had to be made to switch to Hercules in any case so it wouldn't have been that big a switch to use Talos. It wasn't the first time the US Army went with their in-house design over something from elsewhere that worked, and it wouldn't be the last. Look at the MGM-51 Shillelagh missile for example.

[QUOTE="T. A. Gardner, post: 462460, member: 28056"] The US Army was going to switch from Nike Ajax to Nike Hercules, a virtually entirely new missile. When land based Talos started testing Hercules was still on the drawing board. The switch could have been made and the interchangeability to the Talos with existing Navy ones would have kept production costs down. Considerable modification of existing magazines and fire controls had to be made to switch to Hercules in any case so it wouldn't have been that big a switch to use Talos. It wasn't the first time the US Army went with their in-house design over something from elsewhere that worked, and it wouldn't be the last. Look at the MGM-51 Shillelagh missile for example. [/QUOTE]

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