Louis Blotner Radar Bomb Scoring Site
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Typemilitary radar station
| Louis Blotner Radar Bomb Scoring Site | |
|---|---|
| Loring Air Force Base, Aroostook, Maine | |
| Site information | |
| Type | military radar station |
| Location | |
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| Coordinates | 47°00′30″N 68°01′07″W / 47.00833°N 68.01861°W [1] |
| Area | 6.59 acres (2.67 ha)[2][3] |
The Louis Blotner Radar Site was a tracking 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]