The Statesboro Bomb Scoring Site was a
Strategic Air Command
Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a United States Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command responsible for command and control of the strategic bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile ...
(SAC)
Radar Bomb Scoring
Radar Bomb Scoring is a combat aviation ground support operation used to evaluate Cold War aircrews' effectiveness with simulated unguided bomb drops near radar stations of the United States Navy, the USAF Strategic Air Command, and Army Project ...
AUTOTRACK radar station. It was
Formerly Used Defense Site
Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS or FDS) are properties that were owned by, leased to, or otherwise possessed by the United States and under the jurisdiction of the United States Secretary of Defense. The term also refers to the U.S. military pro ...
I04GA0575. Detachment 3 of the
10th Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron had begun "Statesboro Bomb Plot" operations by June 1963.
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
An electronic countermeasure (ECM) is an electrical or electronic device designed to trick or deceive radar, sonar, or other detection systems, like infrared (IR) or lasers. It may be used both offensively and defensively to deny targeting info ...
(
electronic warfare
Electronic warfare (EW) is any action involving the use of the electromagnetic spectrum (EM spectrum) or directed energy to control the spectrum, attack an enemy, or impede enemy assaults. The purpose of electronic warfare is to deny the opponen ...
).
References
Installations of the United States Air Force in Georgia (U.S. state)
Formerly Used Defense Sites
Buildings and structures in Bulloch County, Georgia
Strategic Air Command radar stations
United States automatic tracking radar stations
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