Ashland Radar Station was a United States Air Force station located in Ashland, Maine operational from around 1975 to 1990. [1] Sitting on 6.59 acres (2.67 ha). [2]
The station was constructed in August 1975 along route "IR-800", which was designated in 1981. [3] Detachment 7 moved southwest to the new Ashland Radar Station south of Ashland, Maine. [2] [4] [5] The Ashland Strategic Training Range [6] eventually included an AN/MPS-T1 and Multiple Threat Emitter System (MUTES) and in 1985, Det 7 was awarded the Combat Skyspot trophy. [7] [6] It was closed in 1994 at the end of the Cold War.
The Ashland radar site complex consists of a power production plant, a maintenance and supply area, a communications room, an operations area, administrative offices, and the radar scoring and ECM areas. Although the local RBS site is now permanent…We'll be having a full water supply and a sewer system. [Lt. Col. James H. Tiller, after being stationed at the Bismarck Bomb Plot, assumed] his first command at the Ashland site
Ashland Radar Bomb Scoring consists of 6.59 acre parcel in Ashland, southwest of Loring AFB.(map shows "Blotner Site" northeast of the "Det 7, 1st CEVG" site.)
Multiple Threat Emitter System [is] capable of simulating many radar threats at once. We use IFF to track the plane and transmit the radar signals and the EWs or ECM Pods on the fighters respond … it takes a C-5 to airlift