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The Raytheon AN/MSQ-18 Battalion Missile Operations System[1] (AN/TSQ-38 for the helicopter-transportable variant)[2] was a Project Nike command, control, and coordination system for "each associated missile battery" to control a Nike missile as directed from a Raytheon AN/MSQ-28 at the Army Air Defense Command Post.[3] Raytheon Company[4] constructed the AN/MSQ-18 as 2 separate subsystems:

  • the AN/MSQ-18's operations central in a trailer van with 2 "Surveillance and Entry Consoles"[1] and serving as "the tactical command post of the air defense battalion … capable of either monitoring the engagement or actually making assignments of targets to its batteries",[5] and
  • the AN/MSQ-18's coder-decoder group (CDG) as the trailer van at each battery to "decode the digital data coming to the battery [for use] by the guided misslle system."[5][6]

References[]

  1. "Battalion Missile Operations System AN/MSQ-18" (youtube video of Army film). United States Army Research and Development - Progress Report Number Two. 1961. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGt5ry9-VLQ&NR=1&feature=endscreenreport-video-MGt5ry9-VLQ-32-8.html. Retrieved 2012-06-30.  minutes7:15-10:00 for AN/TSQ-18)
  2. "Army Air Defense Control Systems". Hillman Hall, Fort Bliss, Texas: U. S. Army Air Defense School. January 1965. 
  3. (field manual) FM 44-1: U. S. Army Air Defense Employment. Headquarters, Department of the Army. 11 October 1965. http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/docrepository/FM44_1_1965.pdf. Retrieved 2011-09-06. "The FDS AN/MSG-4 (Missile Monitor) (fig. 3) utilizes standard military vehicles. It is composed of the AADCP AN/MSQ-28 and up to four FDS's AN/MSQ-18. … The FDS AN/MSQ-18 is that portion of Missile Monitor consisting of a battalion fire distribution center (BFDC) and battery terminal equipment (BTE) for each associated missile battery. The electronic search central AN/GSS-1 provides local radar data at the battalion level." 
  4. http://fsg-58-communication-radiation-detection.parttarget.com/fsc-5895-miscellaneous-communication-equipment-5895-00-677-7948_5895-00-679-5378.html
  5. 5.0 5.1 US Army Air Defense School, Student Outline, March 1966
  6. "Organizational, DS, GS, and depot maintenance system manual : operations central AN/MSQ-18 and coder-decoder group OA-1593/MSQ-18" (technical manual). Department of the Army. 1994. http://www.worldcat.org/title/organizational-ds-gs-and-depot-maintenance-system-manual-operations-central-anmsq-18-and-coder-decoder-group-oa-1593msq-18/oclc/30691342. Retrieved 2012-07-04.  (link to WorldCat page)
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