Statesboro Bomb Scoring Site

For US Army railcar "USA89455 City of Statesboro"[1] (also a 1CEVG namesake of Statesboro, Georgia), see RBS Express.

The Statesboro Bomb Scoring Site[2] is a Formerly Used Defense Site I04GA0575[3] 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.[4]

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).[5]

External images
radar station
radomes of AN MPQ T2A radar antennas

References

  1. ↑ http://home.comcast.net/~kandjh/rbs/browns_il_4.html
  2. ↑ http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/133605mp.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02658.pdf
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ http://frenchybutchic.blogspot.com/2008/07/giant-zero-vincent-johnsons-at.html

Coordinates: 32°29′N 81°45′W / 32.483°N 81.750°W / 32.483; -81.750

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