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This Article is a list of United States Air Force aircraft control and warning squadrons active, inactive, and historical. The purpose of an aircraft control and warning squadron is to provide an airborne radar picket to detect vessels, planes, and vehicles before they enter an area of operations, as well as providing command and control in an engagement by directing aircraft strikes.
Pages in category "Radar stations of the United States Air Force" The following 145 pages are in this category, out of 145 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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
The former J-31 San Pedro JSS ARSR-1 radar site, California USAF Battle Control System operators monitor the skies from the floor of the program's Eastern Air Defense Sector location. The Joint Surveillance System (JSS) is a joint United States Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration system for the atmospheric air defense of North America.
The Pacific Air Forces Regional Support Center is part of the Eleventh Air Force. The 611th Air Support Squadron (611 ASUS) manages three of PACAF's largest operations and maintenance (O&M) contracts worth $82M for Eareckson Air Station, the FOL at King Salmon airport, 15 remote radar sites (including the King Salmon Long Range Radar Site ...
Radars of the United States Air Force (1 C, 72 P) Pages in category "Military radars of the United States" The following 185 pages are in this category, out of 185 total.
The base was located on the peak of Sơn Trà Mountain, overlooking Danang Harbour and China Beach. [1] In 1962, the U.S. Navy Officer in Charge of Construction directed the American construction contractor RMK-BRJ to build a new Air Control Radar Station atop the north peak of the mountain, including 12 buildings at the bottom of the mountain and 11 buildings atop the mountain, as well as the ...
The 762d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron (AC&W Sq) began operations [4] with a pair of World War II Air Transportable Search and Detection AN/CPS-3 radars at North Truro in 1951 and assumed radar coverage previously covered by a temporary Lashup Radar Network site at Otis Air Force Base (L-5), and initially the station functioned as a ...