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Permanent System radar stations information


The Permanent System ("P system") was a 1950s radar network ("P radar net") used for the CONUS "manual air defense system"[1] and which had a USAF aircraft control and warning (AC&W) organization of personnel and military installations with radars to allow Air Defense Command ground-controlled interception of Cold War bombers attacking the United States.

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Permanent System radar stations

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The Permanent System ("P system") was a 1950s radar network ("P radar net") used for the CONUS "manual air defense system" and which had a USAF aircraft...

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SAGE radar stations

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by the "Priority Permanent System" with the initial (priority) radar stations completed in 1952: 223  as a "manual air defense system" with Manual ADCCs...

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PAVE PAWS

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PAVE PAWS (PAVE Phased Array Warning System) is a complex Cold War early warning radar and computer system developed in 1980 to "detect and characterize...

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United States general surveillance radar stations

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surveillance radar stations include Army and USAF stations of various US air defense networks (in reverse chronological order): Joint Surveillance System (JSS)...

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Mather Air Force Base

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station was established after a second stage of "additional Lashup stations and heavy radar equipment [was] authorized" in the fall of 1949.: 124  Site L-37...

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Lashup Radar Network

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there were only 5 AC&W stations, e.g., Twin Lights in June and Montauk's "Air Warning Station #3 on July 5 (cf. SAC radar stations, e.g., at Dallas & Denver...

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Duncanville Air Force Station

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1964. Duncanville Air Force Station was one of twenty-eight stations built as part of the second segment of the permanent Air Defense Command network...

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Radar

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Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects...

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National Military Command Center

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(primary) and Maxwell AFB (secondary).: 119  Radar tracks from the 1952 Permanent System radar stations relayed to the Air Defense Command command center...

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Primary radar

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reflected waves from targets within that space. The term thus refers to a radar system used to detect and localize potentially non-cooperative targets. It is...

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Base Realignment and Closure

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resulted in large numbers of new installations, such as the Permanent System radar stations and Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) control centers...

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Duga radar

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or 'curve') was an over-the-horizon radar (OTH) system used in the Soviet Union as part of its early-warning radar network for missile defense. It operated...

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Aerospace Defense Command

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consisted of 47 gap-filler stations, 75 Permanent System radars, 39 semimobile radars, 19 Pinetree stations,…1 Lashup[-era] radar and a single Texas Tower"...

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Arctic Tower

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a 20 ft diameter cylindrical radar station structure of the [who?]AN/GPA-33 Radar Set Group for protecting a USAF radar's antenna and electronic cabinets...

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Havre Air Force Station

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Montana as a site for one of twenty-eight radar stations built as part of the second segment of the permanent radar surveillance network.[citation needed]...

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Weather radar

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Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its...

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List of Royal Air Force stations

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training stations with no flying activity, unmanned airfields used for training, intelligence gathering stations and an early warning radar network. The...

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Radar picket

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A radar picket is a radar-equipped station, ship, submarine, aircraft, or vehicle used to increase the radar detection range around a nation or military...

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Secondary surveillance radar

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Secondary surveillance radar (SSR) is a radar system used in air traffic control (ATC), that unlike primary radar systems that measure the bearing and...

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Ground Observer Corps

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service, the second GOC supplemented the Lashup Radar Network and the Permanent System radar stations. Observations were telephoned directly to filter...

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Baranavichy Radar Station

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Baranavichy Radar Station (Russian: Узел «Барановичи») (sometimes wrongly named Gantsavichy) is a 70M6 Volga-type radar near Hantsavichy (48 km from Baranavichy...

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Finland Air Force Station

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Minnesota site as one of twenty-eight radar stations built as part of the second segment of the permanent radar surveillance network. Prompted by the...

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History of radar

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decades. The development of systems able to produce short pulses of radio energy was the key advance that allowed modern radar systems to come into existence...

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