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Post-World War II radar stations included those of the 1948 "five-station radar net" and the Lashup network completed in 1950, followed by the "Priority Permanent System" with the initial (priority) radar stations completed in 1952 [3]: 223 as a "manual air defense system" [4] with Manual ADCCs (e.g., using Plexiglas plotting boards as at the 1954 Ent Air Force Base command center for ADC.) [3 ...
The 26th SAGE Division (New York, Boston, Syracuse & Bangor SAGE sectors)--the 1st of the SAGE divisions—became operational at Hancock Field on 1 January 1959 [26] after the redesignation started for AC&W Squadrons (e.g., the Highlands P-9 unit became the 646th Radar Squadron (SAGE) October 1.) [43]: 156 Additional sectors included the Los ...
Permanent System radar stations, the Air Defense Command manual network of radar stations prior to deployment of SAGE; Pinetree Line, a series of radar stations located across southern Canada at about the 50th parallel north. Lashup Radar Network radar stations, the radar stations deployed 1950-2 when the "Radar Fence" Plan was not approved
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 ...
As SAGE became fully operational, the squadron title was changed to 781st Radar Squadron (SAGE) on 1 October 1959. [9] Custer AFS was known by Permanent System ID P-67 and Saugatuck, one of four subordinate gap-fillers, held site ID P-67C until 31 July 1963, [ 10 ] when all SAGE radar squadron designations were changed to the NORAD prefix Z and ...
During SAGE deployment, a Burroughs AN/FST-2 Coordinate Data Transmitting Set (CDTS) was installed at Mill Valley AFS and "in late 1960" began providing digitize radar tracks for telecommunication via microwave to the Air Defense Direction Center (DC-18) at Beale Air Force Base (the squadron was re-designated 666th Radar Squadron (SAGE) on 15 ...
Fort Lee Air Force Station, located on the United States Army Fort Lee installation, was selected in 1956 for a Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system direction center (DC) site, designated DC-04. The SAGE system was a network linking Air Force (and later FAA) General Surveillance Radar stations into a centralized center for Air ...
Also in this time frame, the radar site was relocated from the original location in the south central part of the Naval Air Station grounds to the far southwest corner. At the new SAGE radar site, the squadron used an AN/FPS-35 search radar that replaced the AN/MPS-7 set in 1963. In 1964 an AN/FPS-6 height-finder radar was added. In addition to ...