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M-xx 1952 Phase I Mobile Radar station. SM-xx 1955 Phase II Mobile Radar Station. TM-xx 1959 Phase III Mobile station. TT-x Texas Towers, radar tower rigs off the East Coast of the United States, named because of their resemblance to oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Z-xx NORAD designation for sites after 31 July 1963. P, M, SM, and TM ...
Lufkin Air Force Station (ADC ID: TM-193) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 7.2 miles (11.6 km) northwest of Lufkin, Texas . It was closed in 1961.
Texas Tower 2; Texas Tower 3; Texas Tower 4; Thule Air Station; Thule Site N-32; Thule Tracking Station; Tierra Amarilla Air Force Station; Tin City Long Range Radar Site; Tonopah Air Force Station; Two Creeks Air Force Station
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Texas Tower 2 was the first to become operational, starting limited service in May 1956. [7] It became fully operational in 1958, as did Tower 3; Tower 4 followed in April 1959. [ 8 ] The original plan to integrate these radars into the SAGE system had to be modified when the direct cable connection was eliminated; instead, they were used to ...
ARSR-3 and 3D search radar were used by the FAA in the Joint Surveillance System (JSS). The radar operated in the L-band at 1250 to 1350 MHz and detected targets at distances beyond 210 nautical miles; 390 kilometres (240 mi). The D model had height-finder capability. Westinghouse also built ARSR-4 3-D air surveillance radar in the 1990s for ...
AN/AWG-9; AN/CPS-4 Radar; AN/CPS-6 Radar; AN/CPS-9; AN/FPS-4 radar; AN/FPS-5 Radar; AN/FPS-6 Radar; AN/FPS-7 Radar; AN/FPS-8 Radar; AN/FPS-14 Radar; AN/FPS-17; AN/FPS-18 Radar; AN/FPS-20 Early Warning Radar; AN/FPS-24 radar; AN/FPS-27; AN/FPS-35; AN/FPS-117; AN/FPS-124; AN/MPN; AN/MPN-14K Mobile Ground Approach System; AN/MPQ-2; AN/MPQ-49 ...
The Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, constructed in the late 1950s, was reaching obsolescence in the 1980s.With the signing of North American Air Defence Modernization agreement at the "Shamrock Summit" between Prime Minister Mulroney and President Reagan in Quebec City on 18 March 1985, the DEW Line began its eventual upgrading and transition becoming the North Warning System (NWS) of today.