Gold bonnet (air surveillance)

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Goldhaube is the name for the military air surveillance system in Austria .

Gold bonnet (center) on the Great Speikkogel

history

At the end of the 1950s there were first plans for an Austria-wide air surveillance system. In March 1958, three mobile radar stations were put into operation. Today they complement the large-capacity radar stations, the first of which was originally planned for the Hochschneeberg location and was finally built north of Vienna on the Steinmandl (Leiser Berge). From 1963 four more mobile devices were used. The Kolomansberg station (Upper Austria) was expanded further by 1968 . The third military radar station is in Carinthia on the highest peak of the Koralpe , the Großer Speikkogel .

When planning the renewal of the technical systems from 1975 onwards, this project was named “ gold hood ”. The systems were equipped with new 3D devices (distance, direction and height measurement).

Since the beginning of the 1980s , when the “Goldhaube Project” was completed, Austrian air surveillance has been monitoring an area that extends several hundred kilometers in each direction beyond the Austrian border. This should enable early warning in an emergency. After a Yugoslav fighter plane (pilot: Rudolf Perešin ) had reached Klagenfurt airport unnoticed during the Balkan Wars (the 1991 Slovenian crisis ) , the installation of a low-level surveillance system was pushed. Although this had been planned since the 1970s, it was only put into practice after this event and commissioned from 1997 after delivery and installation of the first systems.

construction

The six large-scale radar stations (three military primary radars (PSR) as well as secondary radars ( SSR) and three civil SSR stations from Austro Control ) with different ranges together with the six ASRs of the airports (three military ASR and three civil ASR) form multiradar tracking ( MTR) of the Goldhaube system:

  • Fixed radar stations (ORS), large-capacity radar:
    • military:
      • Kolomansberg , Salzburg
      • Steinmandl / Leiser Berge, Lower Austria
      • Großer Speikkogel / Koralpe, Carinthia. During severe storms in May 2012, the system was badly damaged and taken out of service for repair work. Since then, monitoring has been carried out using the MRCS-403 mobile radar stations. The radar station was restarted in autumn 2013.

The heart of the air surveillance is located in Sankt Johann im Pongau in the base room operations center (government bunker) . The military-civil link is the Military Control Center  (MCC). In addition, compression is possible through mobile radar stations (3D radar device Mobile Radar Control System MRCS-403, Selenia ), and through the low - flying detection radar system Flamingo (TER, Thomson-CSF ), which the radar battalion (RadB, Zeltweg / Fh. Hinterstoisser and Aigen im Ennstal / Fiala Fernbrugg Air Base ).

The system is subordinate to the air surveillance command (Kdo LRÜ) in the Schwarzenberg barracks ( Wals-Siezenheim near Salzburg).

Range

The Goldhaube system overlooks an airspace that extends to the following countries and points:

See also

Web links

  • Airspace surveillance , Austrian Armed Forces, bmlv.gv.at
  • "Goldhaube" air surveillance system , airpower.at (with detailed technical information and numerous photos of the armed forces / press and information service - the facilities are a restricted military area and photography is not permitted)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at - gold bonnet: Continue to wait for restart . Article dated July 28, 2013, accessed July 28, 2013
  2. ↑ Radar system on Speikkogel will soon be ready for use again . Article dated October 8, 2013, accessed August 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ Mobile radar device . bmlv.gv.at
  4. ↑ Target assignment and low- flying detection radar . bmlv.gv.at
  5. ↑ radar battalion , bmlv.gv.at