Air Defense Direction Center
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air-defense-direction-center-191-2249443
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Air Defense Direction Center
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An Air Defense Direction Center (ADDC) was a type of United States command post for assessing Cold War radar tracks, assigning height requests to available height-finder radars, and for "Weapons Direction": coordinating command guidance of aircraft from more than 1 site for ground-controlled interception. As with the World War II Aircraft Warning Service CONUS defense network, a "manual air defense system" was used through the 1950s Along with 182 radar stations at "the end of 1957, ADC operated
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Cold War-era command posts of USAF Air Defense Command
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Defense_Direction_Center
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2023-03-20T23:57:01Z
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