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X-WR-CALDESC:22 March 1962: ASA flew first airborne radio direction finding
  mission in Vietnam. It was a single-engine aircraft that flew low\, slow\
 , and had room for only a few people. This mission flew against Viet Cong 
 transmitters east of Saigon.\n\nAirborne DF had never been tried before. T
 he challenges were many\, from creating an airborne system that could disc
 riminate between direct waves and sky waves to choosing the right kind of 
 aircraft for the mission. However\, by the spring of 1962\, a year after t
 heir arrival in Vietnam\, the 3d RRU was finally able to provide significa
 ntly better signals intelligence (SIGINT) support to the South Vietnamese 
 Army with ASA's fledgling ARDF capability. The ARDF operator could get clo
 ser to the target transmitter without putting himself in imminent danger\;
  one aircraft could move fast enough and cover enough area to eliminate th
 e need for a network of DF teams\; the response to the tactical commander'
 s requirements was faster than with ground DF equipment\; and most importa
 ntly\, the ARDF was more accurate. It could precisely target the enemy's l
 ocation\, which led to follow-up by artillery\, air strikes\, and ground o
 perations by South Vietnamese forces.
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DESCRIPTION:22 March 1962: ASA flew first airborne radio direction finding 
 mission in Vietnam. It was a single-engine aircraft that flew low\, slow\,
  and had room for only a few people. This mission flew against Viet Cong t
 ransmitters east of Saigon.\n\nAirborne DF had never been tried before. Th
 e challenges were many\, from creating an airborne system that could discr
 iminate between direct waves and sky waves to choosing the right kind of a
 ircraft for the mission. However\, by the spring of 1962\, a year after th
 eir arrival in Vietnam\, the 3d RRU was finally able to provide significan
 tly better signals intelligence (SIGINT) support to the South Vietnamese A
 rmy with ASA's fledgling ARDF capability. The ARDF operator could get clos
 er to the target transmitter without putting himself in imminent danger\; 
 one aircraft could move fast enough and cover enough area to eliminate the
  need for a network of DF teams\; the response to the tactical commander's
  requirements was faster than with ground DF equipment\; and most importan
 tly\, the ARDF was more accurate. It could precisely target the enemy's lo
 cation\, which led to follow-up by artillery\, air strikes\, and ground op
 erations by South Vietnamese forces.
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SUMMARY:1962: ASA flew first airborne radio direction finding mission in Vi
 etnam.
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