Statesboro Bomb Scoring Site

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]

External images
image icon radar station
image icon radomes of AN MPQ T2A radar antennas

References

  1. ^ "Article title" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Environmental Contamination - Corps Needs to Reassess Its Determinations That Many Former Defense Sites Do Not Need Cleanup" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2003.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ "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 / 32.483; -81.750


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