SUBJECT: Request for Operation at Ground Radar Equipment for Radar
Countermeasures Training
TO: Chief, Rocket Branch
Ordnance Research and Development Division
Office, Chief of Ordnance
Washington 25, D. C.
ATTN: Col H. N. Toftoy
1. Attached is a request from Headquarters Eight Air Force, Fort
Worth,
Texas, dated 3 Jun 47, subject as above. It is forwarded to
your office
for information and appropriate action.
2. In reviewing the request set out in reference request,
the following comments are made by this headquarters.
3. The radar equipment currently in use at White Sends Proving
Ground is under the control of the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories
of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. This equipment is modified
SCR-584
designed to operate the AN/APN-55 beacon used in obtaining
ballistic
information from the missiles fired at this station. This
equipment being
of an experimental nature obviously is undergoing
modification and
extensive testing procedures when not actually in use
for a firing. It
would, therefore, preclude any possible use by other
agencies for
procedures set out in subject request from headquarters
Eighth Air Force.
3. [sic] Due to the nature of experimental electronic work being conducted
by agencies here at White Sands Proving Ground, it would be
extremely
undesirable to have countermeasures activities in the vicinity of
this
station.
4. Because of accelerated test programs here at the Proving Ground,
it would be extremely difficult to schedule in advance the training
flights as requested in paragraph 3 at request from Headquarters Eighth
Air Force.
