Statesboro Bomb Scoring Site
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The Statesboro Bomb Scoring Site[1][2] was a Strategic Air Command (SAC) Radar Bomb Scoring AUTOTRACK radar station. It was Formerly Used Defense Site I04GA0575. Detachment 3 of the 10th Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron had begun "Statesboro Bomb Plot" operations by June 1963.[3]
In addition to a Reeves AN/MSQ-39 Bomb Scoring Central with Fresnel antenna, during the Vietnam War the station used a Soviet T2A radar with 2 radomes for simulating surface-to-air missile tracking to train/exercise aircraft crews in electronic countermeasures (electronic warfare).[4]
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radomes of AN MPQ T2A radar antennas |
References
[edit]- ^ Article title [bare URL PDF]
- ^ http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02658.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ McAfee, Emerson R (6 August 2005). "Re: [Combat Evaluation Group] Greetings!".
"I was at Det. 8 Richmond from Jun 63-Apr 72. I also made trips to Browns IL but we were the ones who moved it from Mauk GA to Browns so I was only at Browns for about a week
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(help) - ^ "Frenchy but Chic!: GIANT ZERO - Vincent Johnson's at Statesboro Bomb Plot". 31 July 2008.
32°29′N 81°45′W / 32.483°N 81.750°W