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Pages in category "Bases of the Swedish Air Force" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Code of Conduct; Developers; Statistics; Cookie ...
Oxnard Air Force Base: Camarillo: California: 1970 Closed Paine Air Force Base: Everett: Washington: 1972 Redesignated as Paine Air National Guard Base Palm Beach Air Force Base: West Palm Beach: Florida: 1962 Closed Parks Air Force Base: Pleasanton: California: 1959 Realigned to as the US Army: Patrick Air Force Base: Cocoa Beach: Florida: 2020
Vidsel Air Base was established as a secret wartime air base by the Swedish Air Force in 1957. It was called "Krigsflygfält nr. 42" (Wartime airbase no. 42) and not put on maps or written about. The majority of work at the base was done by personnel from the Test & Evaluation department of Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV).
By 1945 the Swedish Air Force had over 800 combat-ready aircraft, including 15 fighter divisions. A major problem for the Swedish Air Force during World War II was the lack of fuel. Sweden was surrounded by countries at war and could not rely on imported oil. Instead domestic oil shale was heated to produce the needed petrol. [3]
The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and northern parts of the state, respectively. [ 1 ] In 1950, the boundaries of the numbering plan area were redrawn to produce a division of the northern and central parts along a north–south ...
Air defence sector [4] (Swedish: Luftförsvarssektor, Lfs) replaced air defence district in 1957. A division of Sweden into 21 air defence sectors was introduced in 1951. It would form the basis for the expansion of the new air surveillance and combat command system, which later came to be called STRIL 50. However, the expansion plan was never ...
Bas 90 (Flygbassystem 90, Air Base System 90) was an air base system used by the Swedish Air Force during the Cold War. Bas 90 was developed during the 1970s and 1980s from the existing Bas 60 system in response to the new threats and needs that had arisen since the conception of the Bas 60 system during the 1950s.
Pages in category "Military installations of Sweden" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Code of Conduct; Developers; Statistics; Cookie ...