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The Air Force added an AN/GPS-3 radar c. late 1958 that stayed until 1965. During 1961 Havre AFS joined the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system, when a Burroughs AN/FST-2 Coordinate Data Transmitting Set was installed to transfer radar track data to Air Defense Direction Center DC-20 at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana.
Emblem of the 779th Radar Squadron FPS-7 Radar Tower 1973 Opheim Air Force Station Montana. Opheim Air Force Station (ADC ID: P-26, NORAD ID: Z-26) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 3.3 miles (5.3 km) west of Opheim, Montana. It was closed in 1979.
Yaak Air Force Station was an Air Defense Command general surveillance radar station in Lincoln County, Montana.Built as one of twenty-eight stations in the second segment of the Permanent System radar network, [4] the 680th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was activated at the installation on 1 March 1951 [5] for ground-controlled interception operating AN/FPS-3 and AN/FPS-4 radars in ...
Mount Lemmon Air Force Station was established in 1954 by Air Defense Command as one of a planned deployment of forty-four mobile radar stations to support the permanent ADC Radar network in the United States sited around the perimeter of the country. This deployment was projected to be operational by mid-1952.
Mount Hebo Air Force Station (ADC ID: M-100, NORAD ID: Z-100) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 5.2 miles (8.4 km) east-southeast of Hebo, Oregon , located at the top of 3,154-foot (961 m) Mount Hebo .
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Mount Tamalpais Air Force Station was the military installation where the 666th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was activated on January 1, 1951. [6] [7] [8] The squadron "began operating a pair of AN/CPS-6B radars at this Bay-area site in late 1951".
Mount Laguna Air Force Station was one of twenty-eight stations built as part of the second segment of the Air Defense Command permanent radar network. Prompted by the start of the Korean War, on July 11, 1950, the Secretary of the Air Force asked the Secretary of Defense for approval to expedite construction of the permanent network.