Martin AN/GSG-5 Battery Integration and Radar Display Equipment explained
The Martin AN/GSG-5 Battery Integration and Radar DIsplay Equipment (BIRDIE) was a transportable electronic fire distribution center for automated command and control of remote surface-to-air missile launch batteries. The solid state radar netting system replaced the vacuum tube AN/FSG-1 at 3 United States Missile Master bunkers (Fort Lawton Air Force Station, Washington;[1] Fort Heath, Massachusetts; and Lockport Air Force Station, New York)[2] and BIRDIEs were deployed at over 25 US locations including Homestead-Miami, Florida; Providence, Rhode Island;[3] and San Francisco.[4] The AN/GSG-5 with 3 consoles was a direction center for up to 16 Nike missile batteries, but a smaller variant with only 1 console and without computer and storage equipment (single shelter AN/GSG-6) could control only 2 batteries[5] and was the 1st BIRDIE deployed.[6] Several BIRDIE systems were replaced by Hughes AN/TSQ-51 Air Defense Command and Coordination Systems (Missile Mentor), and the last AADCP with an AN/GSG-5 was at Ft Lawton on July 1, 1973 (the next-to-last was at Highlands Air Force Station, New Jersey).[7]
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- http://www.techbastard.com/missile/nike/niagara-ny.php Nike Missile Niagara Falls-Buffalo Defense Area
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- News: February 1, 1967 . New Firing Control System: Army Unveils Missile Mentor . . . 13 . 2011-09-15 .
- Book: January 1965 . Chapter 3: Army Air Defense Control Systems . http://ed-thelen.org/USAADSDigest1965chapter3.pdf . U. S. Army Air Defense Digest . Hillman Hall, Fort Bliss, Texas . U. S. Army Air Defense School.
- News: October 1961 . Army Installing First of 19 Midget Missile Master Systems . Army Research and Development Newsmagazine . Washington D.C. . 2011-09-27 . Turner Air Force Base, Ga., where the U.S. Army Signal Corps is installing the first of its 19 BIRDIE systems. ... Housed in 8' x 8' x 18' shelters... The Turner AFB BIRDIE is a small type, directing firing of a limited number of units. A larger unit stores, processes and updates target information in directing fire of a great many missile batteries. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120406065500/http://asc.army.mil/docs/pubs/alt/archives/1961/Oct_1961.pdf . 2012-04-06 .
- McMaster . B. N. . etal . December 1984 . Historical Overview of the Nike Missile System . Environmental Science and Engineering, Inc. . 2011-09-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120402132428/http://www5.hanford.gov/pdw/fsd/AR/FSD0001/FSD0037/D199049898/D199049898_19126_147.pdf . 2012-04-02 .