United States general surveillance radar stations

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rdf:langString United States general surveillance radar stations include Army and USAF stations of various US air defense networks (in reverse chronological order): * Joint Surveillance System (JSS), with radar stations controlled by joint FAA/USAF ROCCs beginning in 1980 * SAGE radar stations, for the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment network prior to the JSS (the 1st SAGE squadrons were designated in 1958) * , the radar stations of Alaskan Air Command * Permanent System radar stations, the Air Defense Command manual network of radar stations prior to deployment of SAGE * Lashup Radar Network radar stations, the radar stations deployed 1950-2 when the "Radar Fence" Plan was not approved * , the "five-station radar net" established in 1948 * , World War II installations of the Aircraft Warning Service with radars (cf. filter centers, Ground Observer Corps stations, etc.) By usage: * RBS Express sites, temporary stations for Radar Bomb Scoring trains which had AN/MPS-9 general surveillance radars * , with general surveillance radars used to acquire the target (i.e., defense acquisition radar, "ACQR", such as the ) * Army Air Defense Command Posts, which used general surveillance radars for coordinating fire from several Nike batteries (e.g., FAA Air Route Surveillance Radars at JUSS radar stations like Fort Heath)