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G/ATOR. The AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) is the United States Marine Corps next-generation Air Surveillance/ Air Defense and Air Traffic Control (ATC) Radar. The mobile active electronically scanned array radar system is being developed by Northrop Grumman and was expected to reach initial operating capability in August 2016.
Vietnam War. Marine Air Traffic Control Units (MATCU) were United States Marine Corps air traffic control (ATC) detachments that provided continuous, all-weather, radar and non-radar, approach, departure, enroute, and tower ATC services at both garrison Marine Corps Air Stations and tactical airfields when deployed.
AN/TPQ-10 Radar Course Directing Central. The General Electric AN/TPQ-1O Course Directing Central was a light-weight, two-unit, helicopter transportable, ground based bombing system developed for use by the United States Marine Corps to provide highly accurate, day/night all weather close air support. This self-contained system was designed to ...
The original Marine Air Support Squadron was composed of a Direct Air Support Center, and two Air Support Radar Teams (ASRTs). [2] A third Air Support Radar Team was added in 1961. The squadron utilized the AN/TSQ-122 Direct Air Support Central. The AN/TSQ-122 was a large control system housed in a rigid fiberglass modular structure.
The Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron (MALS) provides direct support of intermediate aircraft maintenance, avionics, aviation supply, and aviation ordnance to the aircraft squadrons of a Marine Aircraft Group. A MALS is capable of supporting multiple types of aircraft, as well as providing detachments for the aviation combat elements of a MEB ...
Marine Air Control Squadron 1 (MACS-1) is a United States Marine Corps aviation command and control squadron. The squadron provides aerial surveillance, air traffic control, ground-controlled intercept, and aviation data-link connectivity for the I Marine Expeditionary Force. It was the first air warning squadron commissioned as part of the ...
Iceland was the first ever operational use of a radar by the Marine Corps. In March 1942 the battalion was relieved by the Army's 61st Coast Artillery Regiment. [6] By December 1941, the Marine Corps' six Defense Battalions consisted of 5,000 Marines and constituted 20 percent of the total FMF.
MACS-7 radar site at Chu Lai in 1965. To the right of the large radome are two AN/TPS-37 Height finder radars and the larger radar in the distance is an AN/MPS-11A. On 17 April 1965 MACS-7 was moved from MCAS Cherry Point, NC to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. In September 1965 the squadron redeployed to Chu Lai in the Republic of ...