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The Hughes AN/TSQ-51 Air Defense Command and Coordination System[1] was a transportable electronic fire distribution center for automated command and control of remote Nike missile launch batteries. The radar netting system replace the vacuum tube [[AN~FSG-1]] in 6 United States Missile Master bunkers after the upgrade was approved by the United States Department of Defense in 1963; and additional deployments were at Homestead-Miami, Florida, and Providence, Rhode Island, to replace Battery Integration and Radar DIsplay Equipment (BIRDIE) systems;[2] as well as at San Francisco.[3] As with the [[AN~FSG-1]], the AN/TSQ-51 could provide fire control for 24 Nike batteries,[4] but the smaller AN/TSQ-51 could be fielded in 2 trailers.
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The Hughes AN/TSQ-51 Air Defense Command and Coordination System was a transportable electronic fire distribution center for automated command and control of remote Nike missile launch batteries. The radar netting system replace the vacuum tube [[AN~FSG-1]] in 6 United States Missile Master bunkers after the upgrade was approved by the United States Department of Defense in 1963; and additional deployments were at Homestead-Miami, Florida, and Providence, Rhode Island, to replace Battery Integration and Radar DIsplay Equipment (BIRDIE) systems;as well as at San Francisco. As with the [[AN~FSG-1]], the AN/TSQ-51 could provide fire control for 24 Nike batteries,[4] but the smaller AN/TSQ-51 could be fielded in 2 trailers.
  
 
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Revision as of 23:07, 26 January 2018

The Hughes AN/TSQ-51 Air Defense Command and Coordination System was a transportable electronic fire distribution center for automated command and control of remote Nike missile launch batteries. The radar netting system replace the vacuum tube AN~FSG-1 in 6 United States Missile Master bunkers after the upgrade was approved by the United States Department of Defense in 1963; and additional deployments were at Homestead-Miami, Florida, and Providence, Rhode Island, to replace Battery Integration and Radar DIsplay Equipment (BIRDIE) systems;as well as at San Francisco. As with the AN~FSG-1, the AN/TSQ-51 could provide fire control for 24 Nike batteries,[4] but the smaller AN/TSQ-51 could be fielded in 2 trailers.

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