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]

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

References

  1. "Article title" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2010.
  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