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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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Lashup Radar Network radar stations, the radar stations deployed 1950-2 when the "Radar Fence" Plan was not approved; Temporary radar net, the "five-station radar net" established in 1948; Army Radar Stations, World War II installations of the Aircraft Warning Service with radars (cf. filter centers, Ground Observer Corps stations, etc.) By usage:
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 Forward Area ...
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.
Eglin AFB Site C-6 is a United States Space Force radar station which houses the AN/FPS-85 phased array radar, associated computer processing system(s), and radar control equipment designed and constructed for the U. S. Air Force by the Bendix Communications Division, Bendix Corporation.
As the likelihood of sea-based missile attacks from the Gulf of Mexico decreased, and with the low probability of missile attacks from the South, the United States Air Force decided to close the southern-facing PAVE PAWS sites at Robins Air Force Base and Eldorado, Texas. After closure in 1995 one radar face from Eldorado AFS, along with ...