• 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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  • 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 (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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  • 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 (category Permanent System radar stations)
    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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  • 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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  • gap-filler radars. The total consisted of 47 gap-filler stations, 75 Permanent System radars, 39 semimobile radars, 19 Pinetree stations,…1 Lashup -era radar and...
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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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    Over-the-horizon radar (OTH), sometimes called beyond the horizon radar (BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long...
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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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