[Milsurplus] OT: Chilling B-52 Radio Traffic from OperationLinebacker II

[Gary Pewitt]

 From 1964 to 1965 I was stationed at a Radar Bomb Scoring site at 
Wilder City Idaho.  We not only scored the bombing accuracy but trained 
the ECM operators by putting up radars for them to jam and scored them 
on that.
We had radars for all the frequency ranges used by the NVA and 
panadaptors to see their jamming.  We also jammed their bomb laying 
radar to see how well they handled that.  There were a lot of sites 
around the country and even one on a train that moved around the 
country.  Very interesting work.  I hope our training helped save some 
of their lives.  I wonder if that site is still there?


On 4/15/2012 7:43 PM, mac wrote:
> Worked with some crows back during that period who old me that jamming
> the guidance uplink to the SA-2s was very effective, the North
> Vietnamese were essentially reduced to using them like anti-aircraft
> artillery.  .  Evasive action was possible too.  You could see them
> coming, they had a bright plume and  were big (looked like telephone
> poles being thrown at you).  Shoot up enough of them, though, and
> you'll get some hits which they did.
>
> Dennis D.  W7QHO
> Glendale, CA
>
> ***************
>
>> All -
>>
>> Ed -Thanks for the explanation of uplink,  Question still un
>> resolved in
>> my mind how blind were the SAM's if the uplink was jammed?  Yet still
>> some "lucky" shots brought down or damaged a few planes in a flight,
>> WERE there "backup" sensors like the old WW style proximity fuse?  Or
>> did the NVA ground radar have enough precision to point and shoot,
>> like
>> bird hunting, assuming the target would not change coarse or speed to
>> evade collision.
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