Tay
the parachute when the two units are well separated.
Descezt tire froa this
aleicuts: is approxisately 25 aioutes.
5.2.93
Recovery Planning
Altec both Teak and Orang shots, it was planned that tte Naval Task
Croup (TG-7.3) mould conduct recowery operaticns for the sa=pler and instrusentation nose cones and the wADC (Project 8.6) pod.
For Teak, the units to be e=ployed were the destroyer escort Laasing,
the salvage
tug Safeguard, and two PeV aircraft.
H-bour stations for the
Lansing and Safeguard were to be on a bearing of O80 degrees from Jobaston
Island at a distarce of 20 and £5 aautical ailes, respectively.
both ships were to depart for the impact area.
At H bour
The Lansing sas to begin
wonitering the telemetering [rayiencies of the instrumentation cones with
URD/4 direction~finding gear for the dual purpose of obtaining tine to inpace and relative bearing at impact.
During this same tiae interval the
Lunsing’s air-search radar was to obtain as many fixes as possible oa the
descending objects.
The recowery controller in the Combat Information Center (CIC) aboard
the Lansing was to use this inforaaticn io conjunction with predicted tines
and positions of impact to give inicial search directions to the PeV aircraft which were to take off from Johnston at H + 30 ainutes.
The Lansing
CIC was to maintain a continuous radar track on the ¥2V, zarking its position at such tines as it reported being over a recovery object in the water.
Ao order of priority for search and recovery was set in the following order:
(1) WADC pod, (2) samplers, and (3) instrumentation nose coves.
Initial air search for a given unit was to cover thoroughly the probable
impact areas.
Lf the search was unsuccessful, it was to be switched to an
object in the save or lower priority category.
The aircraft «ere to drep
flares on sighted objects to enable ships’ personnel to recover thes,
The
Lansing was scheduled to retrieve the KADC pod and the insem=mentation nose
cones; samplers were to be picked ua by the Safeguard.
It was considered
necessary to use che Safeguard for sampler recovery, since possible radia-
tion Jevele ec bish ac 60 s/he ot ons acter sive capected, acai tie 13>
pound lead-lined pigs which were to house che radioactive samplers could
oot be handled safely on a destroyer having linited deck space and handling
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