USNS Invincible
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USNS Invincible (T-AGM-24), also known as ex-AGOS 10, is one of two tracking ships operated by the Military Sealift Command. One of the radars it carries is the Cobra Gemini dual band, X band and S band, radar.{{cite web |url= http://fas.org/spp/military/program/track/cobra_gemini.htm |title= Cobra Gemini |website= Federation of American Scientists |access-date= 10 May 2015 }}
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Like other members of the Stalwart class of ocean surveillance ships, the original mission of the Invincible was to patrol the oceans looking for submarines with her Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS), a large passive sonar array. The ship was reclassified from AGOS-10 to AGM-24 on April 4, 2000 after she was refitted as a missile range instrumentation ship. Invincible provides a platform for the Cobra Gemini dual-band radar developed by the United States Air Force to support data collection requirements on theater ballistic missiles.{{cite web |url=http://www.msc.navy.mil/factsheet/t-agm.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021027172754/http://www.msc.navy.mil/factsheet/t-agm.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 27, 2002 |title=Military Sealift Command--Fact Sheet |access-date=2008-08-17 |work=U.S Navy Military Sealift Command }} The Military Sealift Command retains custody for United States Air Force use for deploying a mobile surveillance and tracking radar system.
History
Invincible deployed to the Persian Gulf in 2012, passing through the Strait of Hormuz on 19 May 2012 in convoy with British minesweepers.{{cite web | url=http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=124505 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20121212025830/http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=124505 | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 12, 2012 | title=US Navy photo 120519-N-AP176-039 | publisher=US Navy | date=19 May 2012}} In March 2017, Invincible visited the Persian Gulf under Royal Navy escort, and was greeted by numerous IRGC fastboats which provocatively approached within 600 meters of Invincible in the Gulf of Oman.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}}
The ship was inactivated on 15 December 2021 and the US Navy plans to repurpose it into a training vessel or store it as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet.{{cite press release|url=https://www.16af.af.mil/Newsroom/Article/2880371/aftac-msc-inactivate-ballistic-missile-tracking-ship/|title=AFTAC, MSC inactivate ballistic missile tracking ship|publisher=Sixteenth Air Force (Air Forces Cyber)|date=21 December 2021|access-date=25 December 2021}}
References
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External links
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- {{Naval Vessel Register URL|id=AGM24|title=NVR AGM-24}}
- [http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/66/6610.htm navsource.org: T-AGOS-10 / T-AGM-24 Invincible]
- [http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/cobra_gemini.htm Global Security] – Cobra Gemini
- [http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/track/cobra_gemini.htm FAS] – Cobra Gemini
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100406010113/http://www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/ships.asp?ship=107 MSC Ship Inventory – USNS Invincible]
{{Stalwart class ocean surveillance ship}}
{{Missile range instrumentation ship (T-AGM)}}
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Category:Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ships
Category:Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States
Category:Ships built by Tacoma Boatbuilding Company
Category:Missile range instrumentation ships of the United States Navy