Statesboro Bomb Scoring Site

For US Army railcar "USA89455 City of Statesboro"[1] (also a 1CEVG namesake of Statesboro, Georgia), see RBS Express.
Statesboro Bomb Scoring Site
Thomasville RBS site (1972)[2]
Military radar station
Country United States
State Georgia
County Bulloch
Nearest city Atlanta
Coordinates 32°29′N 81°45′E / 32.483°N 81.750°E [3]

The Statesboro Bomb Scoring Site[4] is Formerly Used Defense Site I04GA0575[5] that was a Strategic Air Command (SAC) AUTOTRACK radar station for Radar Bomb Scoring during the Cold War. Detachment 3 of the 10th Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron had begun "Statesboro Bomb Plot" operations by June 1963.[6]

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).[7]

External images
radar station
radomes of Soviet T2A

References

  1. ↑ http://home.comcast.net/~kandjh/rbs/browns_il_4.html
  2. ↑ "title tbd" (Google News Archive).
  3. ↑ Trechsel, Heinz R., ed. (February 1994). Moisture Control in Buildings (Google Books). Ann Arbor: American Society for Testing and Materials. ISBN 0-8031-2051-6. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  4. ↑ http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/133605mp.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02658.pdf
  6. ↑ McAfee, Emerson R (August 6, 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
  7. ↑ http://frenchybutchic.blogspot.com/2008/07/giant-zero-vincent-johnsons-at.html