Louis Blotner Radar Bomb Scoring Site
| Louis Blotner Radar Bomb Scoring Site | |
| military radar station | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | Maine |
| County | Aroostook |
| Nearest AFB | Loring Air Force Base |
| Location | Blotner barracks |
| - coordinates | 47°00′30″N 68°01′07″W / 47.00833°N 68.01861°W |
| Blotner area Ashland area |
1 acre (0.4 ha) 6.59 acres (2.67 ha) |
The Louis Blotner Radar Bomb Scoring Site was a bomb scoring site in Connor, Maine at the former NIKE missile launch site. Activated in June 1963 and operational until after 1979, the site was a AUTOTRACK radar site operated by Detachment 7 of the 12th Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron. The station simulated Electronic Countermeasures for the Ashland Training Range's low-level training route "over Bangor north to Houlton, Maine.
The site was constructed at a former 1957 NIKE battery control area (radar site) which, had been conveyed to Blotner Trailer Sales in 1962, the SAC radar station was initially a mobile site with temporarily-emplaced systems. In 1975, the site was planned to become permanent, but instead groundbreaking in June 1979 was for the nearby Ashland Radar Station. The "Blotner Site" was subsequently used for Louis Blotner Communications Facility No. 1 of Det 2, 1000 SOG in 1987-1993, and the enlisted men's barracks operated as a general store in August 1992. In 1996 the former Ashland site was planned for civilian transfer.
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