Louis Blotner Radar Bomb Scoring Site
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This article is about the two RBS sites near Connor, Maine. For the Connor NIKE launch area, see List of Nike missile locations § Maine.
The Louis Blotner Radar Site was a tracking site site (Not an RBS site) in Connor, Maine at the former NIKE missile launch site. Activated in June 1963 and operational until after 1979, The Ashland site was an AUTOTRACK radar site operated by Detachment 7 of the 1st Combat Evaluation Group.[4] The station simulated Electronic Countermeasures and Radar Bomb Scoring for the Ashland Training Range's low-level training route "over Bangor north to Houlton, Maine."[3]
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Louis Blotner Radar Bomb Scoring Site | |
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Loring Air Force Base, Aroostook, Maine | |
Coordinates | 47°00′30″N 68°01′07″W [1] |
Type | military radar station |
Area | 6.59 acres (2.67 ha)[2][3] |
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