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  2. Eldorado Air Force Station - Wikipedia

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    Eldorado Air Force Station located 35 miles (56 km) south of San Angelo, Texas was one of the four unique AN/FPS-115 PAVE PAWS, early-warning phased-array radar systems. The 8th Space Warning Squadron, 21st Space Wing, Air Force Space Command operated at Eldorado Air Force Station.

  3. PAVE PAWS - Wikipedia

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    PAVE PAWS (PAVE Phased Array Warning System) is a complex Cold War early warning radar and computer system developed in 1980 to "detect and characterize a sea-launched ballistic missile attack against the United States". [1]

  4. List of radars - Wikipedia

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    AN/APS-20 S band search and early warning radar by Hazeltine Corporation and General Electric for Grumman TBM-3W Avenger, Boeing PB-1W, Lockheed EC-121, ZPG-2W(EZ-1), Grumman AF-2W Guardian, HR2S-1W, Lockheed P-2 Neptune, Boeing WB-29 Superfortress, Lockheed RC-121C, Fairey Gannet AEW.3, Canadair CP-107 Argus, Lockheed WP-3A Orion, and Avro ...

  5. Ballistic Missile Early Warning System - Wikipedia

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    The Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) was a radar system built by the United States (with the cooperation of Canada and Denmark on whose territory some of the radars were sited) during the Cold War to give early warning of a Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) nuclear strike, to allow time for US bombers to get off the ground and land-based US ICBMs to be launched, to ...

  6. US opens missile base in Poland as Trump presidency looms ...

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    Other key shield elements include a second site in Romania, U.S. navy destroyers based in the Spanish port of Rota and an early-warning radar in Turkey's town of Kurecik.

  7. North Warning System - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of U.S. Department of Defense and partner code names

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    This is an incomplete list of U.S. Department of Defense code names primarily the two-word series variety. Officially, Arkin (2005) says that there are three types of code name : Nicknames – a combination of two separate unassociated and unclassified words (e.g. Polo and Step) assigned to represent a specific program, special access program ...

  9. Two El Dorado County schools searched by deputies, cleared ...

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    The threat was also sent to “numerous other email recipients,” the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said. Law enforcement conducted searches of the schools and determined no dangerous or ...