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238: 141:(ADC) rejected Supremacy since "no provision was made in it for the Alaska to Greenland net with flanks guarded by aircraft and picket ships for 3 to 6 hours of warning time", and "Congress failed to act on legislation required to support the proposed system." In the spring and summer of 1947, 3 ADC 673:
Stations were undermanned, personnel lacked training, and repair and maintenance were difficult. This stop-gap system later would be replaced by a 75-station, permanent net authorized by Congress and approved by the President in 1949 … To be closer to ConAC, ARAACOM moved to Mitchel AFB, New York on
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additional ten radars and one control station for Alaska" and the augmentation's additional 15 radars ("essentially Phase II of Supremacy"). The USAF reallocated $ 50 million to instead implement the program as a "permanent Modified Plan" (modified from Supremacy) to "start construction on the high
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were planned to replace Lashup with a larger radar network "until the Supremacy plan network could be approved and constructed", and an $ 85,500,000 March 1949 Congressional bill funded both the Interim Program "for 61 basic radars and 10 control centers to be deployed in 26 months, with an
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was complete in June 1949. In the fall of 1949 a 2nd stage of "additional Lashup stations and heavy radar equipment authorized", and after completed in April 1950 the "Lashup net went into operation" on June 1, 1950. After a mid-July direct telephone line was installed between
161:"was ordered on 23 April 1948 to establish with his current resources AC&W systems in the Northwestern United States, the Northeastern United States, and the Albuquerque, New Mexico, areas, in that priority." The "first air defense division organization", the 803:"On 1 December 1953, the site designation was changed to LP-45 and the Air Force facilities were renamed Montauk Air Force Station. Montauk AFS was incorporated into the permanent ADC network of General Surveillance Radar Stations. (unsourced claim at 394:
was created in December 1950.) On June 13, 1951, the government released $ 20 million for construction of permanent radar stations, and the "original construction program for the Permanent System" was completed in May 1952.
181:" was a stopgap $ 561,000 program approved in October 1948 by the ADC commander to expand "the five-station radar net then in existence". Preliminary work began by the end of 1948, and L-1 at 142: 382:. Congress subsequently passed a "supplemental appropriation" in September 1950 of nearly $ 40 million for new radar stations and search/height-finder equipment." By November 1950, 125:
air defense "warning and control system" for $ 600 million (including $ 388 million for radars and other equipment) proposed in a report by Maj. Gen. Francis L. "Ankenbrandt and his
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report "while recognizing the need for a radar early-warning system, cautioned against the extraordinary expense of such a system, if constructed, to provide total coverage." The
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had 1 of 6 SCR-270s. CONUS "Army Radar Station" deployments for World War II were primarily for coastal anti-aircraft defense, e.g., L-1 at Oceanside CA, J-23 at Seaside OR (
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reportedly became permanent site LP-54 in 1951.) One station of the Lashup Radar Network remained in 1957 at the end of which ADC operated 182 radar stations (
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ADC Historical Division. The Development of Continental Air Defense to 1 September 1954 (USAF Historical Study No. 126). Maxwell AFB, Alabama. p. 20.
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filter centers (7 in the west, 19 in the east) were being installed, and by November 10 a separate Air Defense Command headquarters at
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Project SUPREMACY)" was to be complete by 1953 with 411 radar stations and 18 control centers in the continental United States.
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headquarters and the 26th Air Division HQ ("the beginning of the Air Force air raid warning system"); in August "President
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of radars in February 1950 with the first 24 radar sites to be constructed by the end of 1950"—operating in 1951 were
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In November 1947 ADC "decided to go ahead with implementation AC&W assets…ADC possessed." The January 1, 1948,
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For the unmanned microwave "fence" ("trip wire") that signalled when something flew by (even flocks of geese), see
447: 356: 327: 36: 379: 296: 75:), and B-30 at Lompoc CA; and "the AAF...inactivated the aircraft warning network in April 1944." In 1946 the 331: 284: 280: 223: 64: 452: 288: 76: 67:" (NY). When "Pearl Harbor was attacked, early-warning stations" (ME, NJ, & 6 in CA), and Oahu's 169:
was activated at Mitchell Field NY on November 16, and both were transferred to ADC on April 1, 1949.
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The 44 Lashup radar stations in April 1950 were 23 in the Northeast/Great Lakes areas, 10 in the
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When the system was complete, 134 of these data communications devices had been installed.
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was "first conceived—and rejected". By 1948 there were only 5 AC&W stations, e.g.,
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United States electronic attack warning began with a 1939 networking demonstration at
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Emerging Shield: The Air Force and the Evolution of Continental Air Defense 1945-1960
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Searching the Skies: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program
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History of Strategic Air and Ballistic Missile Defense, 1945–1955: Volume I
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Organization and Responsibility for Air Defense, March 1946–September 1955
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radar netting system for air defense surveillance which followed the post-
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History of Strategic and Ballistic Missile Defense, 1945-1955: Volume I
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identified on June 12 that ADC could employ "an American version of
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used in the Lashup network was ready for installation in late 1950.
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Phaseout of Lashup radar stations began in January 1952 at
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indicated insufficient low-altitude coverage," and Maj Gen
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not operational but in "guard" (probably caretaker) status
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was named an Air Force Station when designated LP-45 (the
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sites in 1963, 66 "long-range radars" in 1981, and 41
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Cold War military installations of the United States
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was added by March 9, 1950. Also developed was the
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Index

late 1950s SAGE Radar Network
Cold War
World War II
Permanent System
ROTOR
United Kingdom
Twin Lights station NJ
SCR-270
Watertown maneuvers
Opana Mobile Radar Station
Tillamook Head
Distant Early Warning Line
Twin Lights
Montauk's "Air Warning Station #3
cf.
SAC radar stations
Dallas
Denver
Mid-Canada (McGill) Line
Cold War
communications officers
USAF Chief of Staff
code named
Air Defense Command
Aircraft Control and Warning
Finletter Commission
ADC commander
25th Air Division
26th Air Division
Dow Air Force Base

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