page_title: Raytheon AN/MSQ-18 Battalion Missile Operations System
hierarchical_section_title: Raytheon AN/MSQ-18 Battalion Missile Operations System
caption_attribution_description: English: Battery Central control console of the AN/MSQ-18 system (used ao by Nike Hercules command and control) Nederlands: Bedienings console voor AN/MSQ-18 systeem. In gebruik op een Nike Hercules Groeps Operatie Centrum (GOC).
context_page_description: The Raytheon AN/MSQ-18 Battalion Missile Operations System was a Project Nike command, control, and coordination system for "each associated missile battery" to control a Nike missile as directed from a Raytheon AN/MSQ-28 at the Army Air Defense Command Post. Raytheon Company constructed the AN/MSQ-18 as 2 separate subsystems:
  the AN/MSQ-18's operations central in a trailer van with 2 "Surveillance and Entry Consoles"USAREUR Partial Photos - 2-56th Arty and serving as "the tactical command post of the air defense battalion … capable of either monitoring the engagement or actually making assignments of targets to its batteries", and
  the AN/MSQ-18's coder-decoder group as the trailer van at each battery to "decode the digital data coming to the battery [for use] by the guided misslle system."
context_section_description: The Raytheon AN/MSQ-18 Battalion Missile Operations System (AN/TSQ-38 for the helicopter-transportable variant) was a Project Nike command, control, and coordination system for "each associated missile battery" to control a Nike missile as directed from a Raytheon AN/MSQ-28 at the Army Air Defense Command Post.   Raytheon Company constructed the AN/MSQ-18 as 2 separate subsystems:
  the AN/MSQ-18's operations central in a trailer van with 2 "Surveillance and Entry Consoles"USAREUR Partial Photos - 2-56th Arty and serving as "the tactical command post of the air defense battalion … capable of either monitoring the engagement or actually making assignments of targets to its batteries", and
  the AN/MSQ-18's coder-decoder group (CDG) as the trailer van at each battery to "decode the digital data coming to the battery [for use] by the guided misslle system."
caption: Control console
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