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Red Cliff Air Station
Red Cliff Air Station (Also known as St. Johns) (ID: N-22, C-22) was a United States general surveillance radar stations, General Surveillance Radar station. The remains of which are located north-northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It was closed in 1961. History During World War II a US-manned battery of two 8-inch M1888, 8-inch railway guns was located at Red Cliff, part of Fort Pepperrell in St. John's. The site was established in 1953 as a General Surveillance Radar station, funded by the United States Air Force, one of the many that would make up the Pinetree Line of Ground-controlled interception, Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) radar sites. Northeast Air Command stationed the 642d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron at the station on 1 January 1953. The site was the most eastern ground radar site in North America of the USAF. It operated the following radars: * Search Radars: AN/FPS-502, AN/CPS-6B * Height Radars: AN/TPS-502, AN/CPS-6B A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinetree Line
The Pinetree Line was a series of radar stations located across the northern United States and southern Canada at about the 50th parallel north, along with a number of other stations located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Run by North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) (after its creation), over half were staffed by United States Air Force personnel with the balance operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force. The line was the first coordinated system for early detection of a Soviet Union, Soviet bomber attack on North America, but before the early 1950s radar technology quickly became outdated and the line was in full operation only for a short time. History Plans for what would become the Pinetree Line were underway as early as 1946 within the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD), a Canadian-U.S. organization. However, the costs of running such a system in the post-war era was too high, and instead Canada concentrated on the areas around Ontari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
