The Statesboro Bomb Scoring Site was a

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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

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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

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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 {{GeorgiaUS-struct-stub