USS Rancocas
USS ''Rancocas'' (LS-1) is the former name of an engineering development facility at the border between Moorestown, New Jersey, Moorestown Township and Mount Laurel, New Jersey, Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey. In May 2008, it was formally renamed the Vice Admiral James H. Doyle, Jr. Combat System Engineering Development Site (CSEDS). It is located between Hartford Road and County Route 537 (New Jersey), County Route 537 in Moorestown and looks like a warehouse with the superstructure of a planned, but never built Strike cruiser, naval strike cruiser sitting on the roof. The design of the superstructure was later incorporated into the design of the . The facility was initially constructed for the United States Air Force in 1958, to support AN/FPS-49 Ballistic Missile Early Warning System development. It briefly operated as a sensor for the Project Space Track, SPACETRACK program but was transferred to the U.S. Navy and refurbished in 1976 to support Aegis Combat System develop ...
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