In addition to the known military bases (U.S. Army) Camp Hero and Montauk Air Force Station, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans and records establish conclusive proof of the existence of at least four levels of subterranean facilities beneath Camp Hero, and according to informed sources up to three additional levels have been added as recently as the early 1990s. With the problems resolved, the radar was operational again in 1962 and by 1963 an AN/FPS-26 had replaced one of the AN/FPS-6 height-finder radars. The Eastern portion of the site was donated to New York State, but it remained unused because of its close proximity to a high-security facility. Between 1955 and 1956 an AN/FPS-8/GPS-3 made an appearance at the tip of the site. Camp Hero itself swelled to 278 acres (1.13 km2), and included four obsolete 16-inch naval rifles, originally intended for battleships, installed as expedient coastal artillery pieces in concrete bunkers. Looking for Montauk Air Force Station? Sign of the Montauk Air Force Station that the Air Force says "never existed." It also used "frequency diversity" technology making it resistant to electronic countermeasures. Back … Camp Hero was a U.S. Army installation established prior to WW2, and Montauk Air Force Station was established within its perimeter as the Army phased out of the location in the 1950s. Der Stützpunkt trug den offiziellen Namen Montauk Air Force Station. Current Page: