Base Tuono, Military museum in Folgaria, Italy.

Base Tuono is the Alpha launch section of the former 66th Guided Interceptor Group missile site at Passo Coe, in the municipality of Folgaria, at 1543 m above sea level. Three MIM-14 Nike Hercules missiles stand upright on fixed launchers on a concrete apron, grey-green cylinders with sharp nose cones and fins near the base, before a low building with a corrugated metal roof and a dark open bay.

The installation began operations in 1966 as a strategic NATO facility and served to protect the Italian eastern border. The site was closed in 1977 and after decades was restored as a museum to document the history of European defense technology.

The name "Tuono" (thunder) was the radio code word for the control area on Monte Toraro, about 4 km from the launch site. The museum occupies the Alpha section of the launch area, where three MIM-14 Nike Hercules missiles stand on a fixed ramp. Nearby is an artistic reproduction of the Madonna di Loreto, patroness of Italian military aviation.

The site lies at Passo Coe, 1543 m above sea level, a few hundred metres from the Veneto border, with the Monte Toraro control area about 4 km away and the logistics area at Tonezza del Cimone about 17 km off. The three missiles stand on an outdoor concrete apron beside a low building with a corrugated metal roof, so plan for mountain weather at that altitude.

Three deactivated Nike Hercules missiles stand among the preserved radar systems and form one of the few completely preserved missile defense installations from that era. The missile complexes lie open in the landscape and give visitors a direct impression of the size and structure of the defense systems of that time.