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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 ...
Clear Missile Early Warning Station construction began in August 1958 with 700 workers [7] —i.e., a "construction" camp was being erected in September 1958 by "Patti-McDonald and Morrison-Knudsen" [8] next to the railroad [citation needed] (for $1.7 million, 40,000 ft of railroad were moved by 1959.) [9] Groundbreaking for radar structures ...
Dec. 7—A new milestone was reached Monday in the creeping militarization of space. A ceremony at the Clear Space Force Base (formerly Clear Air Force Station) south of Fairbanks celebrated the ...
1961 Closed Pyote Air Force Base: Pyote: Texas: 1954 Closed. Re-opened in 1958 as Pyote Air Force Station, an air defense radar station Randolph Air Force Base: San Antonio: Texas: 2010 Realigned as part of Joint Base San Antonio [11] Reese Air Force Base: Lubbock: Texas: 1997 Closed [17] Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base: Kansas City: Missouri ...
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.
The radar at Clear was the last mechanically operated BMEWS site. In 1998 the radar began to be converted to a phased array radar by employing components of the PAVE PAWS submarine-launched ballistic missile detection site from the closed facility at Eldorado Air Force Station near Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas.
Texas Towers were a set of three radar facilities off the eastern seaboard of the United States which were used for surveillance by the United States Air Force during the Cold War. Modeled on the offshore oil drilling platforms first employed off the Texas coast, they were in operation from 1958 to 1963.