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Reeves AN/TSQ-96 Bomb Directing Central

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For the USMC AN/TPQ-10 also used for Combat Skyspot, see AN/MPQ-14 Course Directing Central.
AN/TSQ-96
military control system
Country United States
Test Site Bergstrom Air Force Base

The Reeves AN/TSQ-96 Bomb Directing Central was a Cold War automatic tracking radar/computer/communications system ("Q" system) that was an India Band[verification needed] monopulse variant of the conical scan Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central and had a solid state Univac 1219B computer with punch tape reader[1] (Mark 152 fire control computer),[2] for ballistic calculation. As with the MSQ-77, an analog vacuum tube computer converted radar range, azimuth, and elevation to cartesian coordinates, but the TSQ-96 used a digital radiometer for analog-to-digital conversion. The TSQ-96 systems manufactured by Reeves Instrument Corporation were replaced c. 1990 by the US Dynamics AN/TPQ-43 Radar Bomb Scoring Set ("Seek Score").[3]

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An AN/TSQ-96 was used for Vietnam War ground-directed bombing training at Bergstrom AFB in Austin TX and tracked flights at the Matagorda Island General Bombing and Gunnery Range.[4] Deployment of the central began at operating location 23 (OL-23) on Nakhon Phanom RTAFB during the Vietnam War[5] and in 1983, Radar Bomb Scoring Division Detachment 24 operated a TSQ-96 for Radar Bomb Scoring in Guam.[6] The La Junta Bomb Plot also used a TSQ-96. Detachment 12, 1CEVG Hawthorne, Nevada had a TSQ-96 that had been transferred from Detachment 6, 1CEVG Bayshore, Michigan.

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  1. ↑ Leyva, Ken. "TSQ-96 J-band Mono Pulse" (anecdote webpage). TestVector.com. http://testvector.com/SkySpot.html. Retrieved 2012-07-13. 
  2. ↑ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jim-gurney/29/877/9b0
  3. ↑ Jost, Alan C. (2007). ConOps:The Cryptex to Operational System Mission Success (Report). Raytheon. http://www.crosstalkonline.org/storage/issue-archives/2007/200710/200710-Jost.pdf. Retrieved 2012-07-09. 
  4. ↑ http://testvector.com/Various.html
  5. ↑ "Nakhon Phanom had both an AN/MSQ-81 and an AN/TSQ-96." "OL-23 was the TSQ-96 system while OL-27 was the TSQ-81"
  6. ↑ http://home.rmci.net/cbburke/charlie's/Charliesmilitarymemories.html
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