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hipoetry t1_j1w3woq wrote

There was one on Bolling pointed over the river when I lived there in the early 2000s. It was by the marina. They did put it in after 9/11, but I can't speak to its exact purpose.

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PalpitationNo3106 t1_j1w65r4 wrote

There are several on the south eastern side of the Anacostia. The Naval research labs has a couple, the Secret Service has a couple. The ones on Hummers are mostly Avengers (basically two four packs of stinger missiles) the others are NASAMS (a Norwegian anti-aircraft missile system) for all the money the US spends on weapons, we don’t have a natively developed SAM capability, so we use the Norwegian system to defend our capital. If you look closely, you can sometimes see Avenger systems scattered around town. I know the Naval Observatory has them, there are at least two on rooftops near the White House.

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granulabargreen t1_j1wfqss wrote

NASAMS use American AMRAAM missiles so a large part is natively developed, not to mention patriot and the aforementioned stingers

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hearshot t1_j1wshig wrote

> NASAMS

Co-developed with Raytheon so partially native.

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paynesvilletoss t1_j1wswfd wrote

In addition to the other replies, the SM-6/RIM-174 also uses the AMRAAM seeker head and was developed domestically by Raytheon.

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UniversalRedditName t1_j1whe03 wrote

Bolling’s is still there. They put up a bunch of SAM sites across DC post 9/11 on government bases and buildings. You can google “DC SAM sites” and get a whole bunch of results

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jgf556 t1_j1xbjcl wrote

I remember driving past machine guns on 110 for a while there.

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