Ashland Radar Station Explained

Ashland Radar Station was a United States Air Force station located in Ashland, Maine operational from around 1975 to 1990.[1] Sitting on 6.59acres.[2]

History

The station was constructed in August 1975 along route "IR-800", which was designated in 1981.[3] Detachment 7 moved southwest to the new Ashland Radar Station south of Ashland, Maine.[4] [5] The Ashland Strategic Training Range eventually included an AN/MPS-T1 and Multiple Threat Emitter System (MUTES) and in 1985, Det 7 was awarded the Combat Skyspot trophy.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cold War Relics - Louis Blotner Bomb Scoring . 2015-10-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151102012517/http://coldwarrelics.com/louis_blotner_bomb_scoring . 2015-11-02 . dead .
  2. News: Spruce . Christopher . 5 September 1975 . Ashland radar site aids Air Force training . Google News Archive . Bangor Daily News . 2013-04-10 . The Ashland radar site complex consists of a power production plant, a maintenance and supply area, a communications room, an operations area, administrative offices, and the radar scoring and ECM areas. Although the local RBS site is now permanent…We'll be having a full water supply and a sewer system. [Lt. Col. James H. Tiller, after being stationed at the Bismarck Bomb Plot, assumed] his first command at the Ashland site.
  3. Air Force Magazine . FB-111A mission profile . Air Force Association . 2013-04-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131004230230/http://www.fb-111a.net/FBmissions.html . 4 October 2013 . (2011 transcription at FB-111A.net)
  4. May 1995 . Community Relations Plan - Loring Air Force Base (LORNG_AR_2069.pdf) . AR File Number 2069 (Installation Restoration Program) . WPI, Inc. . Cambridge . Off-Site Parcels [map] . 37 . Ashland Radar Bomb Scoring consists of 6.59 acre parcel in Ashland, southwest of Loring AFB.. (map shows "Blotner Site" northeast of the "Det 7, 1st CEVG" site.)
  5. Web site: Bangor Daily News - Google News Archive Search.
  6. News: 22 March 1985 . Ashland group awarded Combat Skyspot trophy . . 2012-07-08.
  7. Web site: 25 October 2003 . Tidbit for the Gulf War Vets and D.G. . Pictures of bombers on D.G. [Diego Garcia] for 91 Gulf War |publisher=B52StratoFortressAssociation.yuku.com |access-date=2013-04-10 |quote=Multiple Threat Emitter System [is] capable of simulating many radar threats at once. We use IFF to track the plane and transmit the radar signals and the EWs or ECM Pods on the fighters respond … it takes a C-5 to airlift}}[6] It was closed in 1994 at the end of the Cold War.

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