Video visit to Fort Bliss, Texas in the 1950s -- antiaircraft artillery and guided missile center. Video of the training areas and Skysweeper antiaircraft battery. Also, guided missile training is shown.
The Skysweeper (full designation "Gun, M51, Antiaircraft" or "D48 Gun Automatic, 75-mm T83E6, and E7 Recoil Mechanism and Loader Rammer") was anti-aircraft gun used by the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force in the 1950s. It was the first antiaircraft gun to combine a gun laying radar, M10 analog computer (director), and an autoloader on a single carriage.
