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    The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada...
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  • Distant Early Warning may refer to: Distant Early Warning Line, a series of radar stations in the Arctic, operated during the Cold War by the United States...
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    Low SCR-270 AN/CPS-1 CXAM radar Freya radar Pinetree Line Mid-Canada Line Distant Early Warning Line Duga radar BMEWS AMES Type 80 AMES Type 84 AMES Type...
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    attacks from across North America's polar region. It replaced the Distant Early Warning Line system in the late 1980s. The NWS consists of both long range...
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    aircraft control and warning (AC&W) system along Alaska's coast and interior. The Alaskan segment of the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) was built, and...
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    Constellation was used to serve as an airborne early warning system to supplement the Distant Early Warning Line, using two large radomes (a vertical dome...
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    runway in 1953 to support the Distant Early Warning Line Radar station at Barter Island (BAR-MAIN). The Barter Island DEW Line station was operated by civilian...
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  • The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada...
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  • 1955 Cape Lisburne became part of the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line), the most westernmost station on the line which stretched east across the northern...
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    near Gordon's trading post. Starting in March 1953, a runway and Distant Early Warning Line radar station were built on the island by Western Electric Company...
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