Havre Electronic Bomb Scoring Site

This article is about the automatic tracking (AUTOTRACK) radar station northeast of Havre, Montana. For the general surveillance radar station north-northwest of the town, see Havre Air Force Station.

Havre Electronic Bomb Scoring Site (HC 30, Box 8000; Havre MT 59501-8000 in 1989)[1] is a Formerly Used Defense Site for USAF evaluation of aircrews on training missions. The site was initially established for the 1965 Strategic Air Command Bombing and Navigation Competition[2] (Havre Bomb Plot);[3] the RBS Express was stationed at a siding near Chinook, Montana;[4] and a new "temporary mobile radar site" 35 mi (56 km) northeast of Havre, Montana, was announced in 1982[5] ("MDL 35").[6] The 1983 site was in Hill County, Montana, with seven semi-trailers,[7] and a new permanent site was approved by 1984 for also north of Havre ("new operations facility and housing for 74 military personnel [planned for] late 1985.")[8] "Upon decommissioning of [the mobile site at] Havre, MT Serial Number 7 went to Detachment 18, Forsyth, Montana for SAC Bomb-Comp 1987 and then to Detachment 20, 1CEVG Conrad, Montana in early 1988."

In August 1986,[3] the last Havre radar site was established when the Hawthorne Bomb Plot[9] equipment from Nevada had been emplaced at the permanent site: Detachment 17 of SAC's Radar Bomb Scoring Division operated equipment such as Radar Bomb Scoring central(s), jamming systems, and surface-to-air radar simulators. The site was 1 of the 6 permanent stations by 1989 along SAC's Strategic Training Range Complex[10] used by the weapons school at Ellsworth AFB (SAC's Gen. Curtis E. LeMay Strategic Warfare Center activated August 1989.)[11] Public Law 102-109 in 1991 allocated $700,000 for the Havre Strategic Training Range Site,[12] which continued operations under Air Combat Command until June 1993.[3] In 1998 at the Havre Training Site, Facility #1--Property Number 189530047, a 1 story brick frame structure of 6,843 sq ft (0.1571 acres)—was declared excess in the Federal Register.[13]

References

  1. ↑ Information Management: Air Force Address Directory (Air Force Regulation) (AFR 4-16), retrieved 2014-07-31
  2. ↑ Gasman, Bill. "Supporting Force Arriving for Massive Bomb Contest" (Google News). Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  3. 1 2 3 Kalie, Carl (kaliec) (Feb 3, 2002). "Re: More aerial views" (Message 3285). Retrieved 2014-07-31. Nice view of Havre, Det 17. This Sep '97 picture was about 4 years after we shut down. We opened this location in Aug '86, (MDL 34 was designated Havre Bomb Plot previously), and closed it in Jun '93.
  4. ↑ "Yahoo! Groups". Groups.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
  5. ↑ "Training site opens" (Google news). Spokesman-Review. November 30, 1983. Retrieved 2014-07-31. permanent Strategic Training Range Complex to be established in Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas by June 1984.
  6. ↑ "Yahoo! Groups". Groups.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
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  8. ↑ "Full text of "Montana employment and labor force"". Archive.org. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
  9. ↑ "Air Force Group Bids Farewell to Hawthorne" (Google News Archive). Mineral County Independent-News. May 29, 1985. Retrieved 2013-05-16. …the majority of the personnel will be moving with the radar equipment to Havre, Montana.
  10. ↑ "title tbd". Air Force Magazine. December 1989. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay Strategic Warfare Center (SWC), activated last August at Ellsworth. … MUTES, Seek Score, and the AN/MSR-T4 Threat Reaction Analysis Indicator System—which records and measures aircrew response to threats emitted by MUTES—are always located close to each other. All of the radars are mobile and are located at twelve (six permanent and six migratory) radar bomb scoring sites along the STRC.Located near Forsyth, Conrad, and Havre in Montana, Powell, Wyo., Dickinson, N. D., and Belle Fourche, S. D., the permanent radar sites are manned by two Air Force officers and some sixty enlisted personnel assigned to the 1st Electronic Combat Range Group.
  11. ↑ "Air Force Magazine". Webcache.googleusercontent.com. 2015-03-10. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
  12. ↑ "Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 105 Part 2.djvu/571 - Wikisource, the free online library". En.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
  13. ↑ Department of Housing and Urban Development (February 20, 1998). "Federal Property Suitable as Facilities To Assist the Homeless" (GPO.gov transcript). Federal Register 63 (34) (Government Printing Office). Retrieved 2014-07-31. Bldg. 110 Forsyth Training Site … Bldg. 112
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