ASB-9 Bomb Nav System; 514th F. T. D. Student-Study-Guide For ATC Training Purposes Only
Omaha, NE: United States Air Force, Headquarters, 15th Air Force. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 55. [1] pages, plus covers. Ink notation on front cover. Illustration of a B-52 on front cover. Staple bound on left side. Illustrations. Some tabular information. Rare surviving copy. F. T. D. stands for Field Training Detachment. The 514th supported the Strategic Air Command. AN/ASQ-38 Bombing/Navigation System was manufactured by IBM/Raytheon; it used AN/AJA-1, AN/APN-89, AN/ASB-4; it was used in B-52E/F/G/H. A focus was on In Flight Discrepancy and Maintenance Aids. This document table of contents includes: Introduction to the ASQ-38 Weapons Control System, the ASB-9 Bombing Navigational Computer, High Speed Bombing Radar (HSBR), Performance Characteristics of a LIN-LOG Receiver, that AN/APN-89 Doppler Radar, MD-1 Automatic Astro-Compass, and N-1 compass and AN/AJA-1 True Heading System. This booklet has been prepared under the direction of the Electronics Branch, AFPRO, Boeing, Wichita, Kansas. Collation, publication and distribution was made by the Boeing field Service Group. Contributors to this publication included IBM, Kollsman Instrument Company, General Precision Laboratory, Raytheon, and Kearfott. The purpose of this publication was to furnish information to Flight personnel which would enable them to provide necessary data to Ground personnel concerning observed discrepancies. The information contained herein covers the various Electronics Systems which make of the An/ASQ-38(v) WCSO in the B-52G Weapon System. Technical order references for each system are included as well as other pertinent literature references. Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a United States Department of Defense (DoD) Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command (MAJCOM), responsible for Cold War command and control of two of the three components of the U.S. military's strategic nuclear strike forces, the so-called "nuclear triad", with SAC having control of land-based strategic bomber aircraft and intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs (the third leg of the triad being submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) of the U.S. Navy).
SAC also operated all strategic reconnaissance aircraft, all strategic airborne command post aircraft, and all USAF aerial refueling aircraft, to include those in the Air Force Reserve (AFRES) and Air National Guard (ANG).
SAC primarily consisted of the Second Air Force (2AF), Eighth Air Force (8AF) and the Fifteenth Air Force (15AF), while SAC headquarters (HQ SAC) included Directorates for Operations & Plans, Intelligence, Command & Control, Maintenance, Training, Communications, and Personnel. At a lower echelon, SAC headquarters divisions included Aircraft Engineering, Missile Concept, and Strategic Communications.
Strategic Air Command was originally established in the U.S. Army Air Forces on 21 March 1946, acquiring part of the personnel and facilities of the Continental Air Forces (CAF), the World War II command tasked with the air defense of the continental United States (CONUS). At the time, CAF headquarters was located at Bolling Field (later Bolling AFB) in the District of Columbia and SAC assumed occupancy of its headquarters facilities until relocating SAC headquarters (HQ SAC) to nearby Andrews Field (later Andrews AFB), Maryland as a tenant activity until assuming control of Andrews Field in October 1946.
Beginning in 1955, SAC also moved a portion of its bomber and aerial refueling aircraft to a 24-hour alert status, either on the ground or airborne. By 1960, fully one third of SAC's bombers and aerial refueling aircraft were on 24-hour alert, with those crews and aircraft not already airborne ready to take off from designated alert sites at their respective bases within fifteen minutes. Bomber aircraft on ground alert were armed with nuclear weapons while aerial tanker aircraft were sufficiently fueled to provide maximum combat fuel offload to the bombers.
Concurrent with this increased alert posture and in order to better hone strategic bombing skillsets, the 1955 SAC Bombing and Navigation Competition was characterized by radar bomb scoring (RBS) runs on Amarillo, Denver, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, San Antonio] and Phoenix; and the 1957 competition (nicknamed "Operation Longshot") had three targets: Atlanta, Kansas City, and St. Louis. This use of RBS with simulated target areas utilizing mobile and fixed bomb scoring sites adjacent to major cities, industrial areas, military installations and dedicated bombing ranges throughout the United States. This format would continue through successive SAC Bombing and Navigation Competitions through the remainder of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Commencing in the late 1950s, in addition to representation from every SAC wing with a bombing and/or air refueling mission, later SAC competitions would also include participating bomber and aerial refueling units from the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command and (after 30 April 1968) its successor, RAF Strike Command. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Strategic Air Command, 514th Field Training Detachment, ASQ-38, ASB-9, Bomb Navigation System, B-52, Doppler Radar, Navigational Computer, High Speed Bombing Radar, LIN-LOG Receiver, Weapons Control System
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