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    Ground-controlled interception (GCI) is an air defence tactic whereby one or more radar stations or other observational stations are linked to a command...
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  • has used ground-based radars for anti-aircraft artillery fire control, long range early warning, Ground-controlled interception (GCI), ground directed...
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  • Ground radar (cf. airborne radar system) is a radar positioned on the ground and used for air defense (e.g., ground-controlled interception), command...
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    The squadron provides aerial surveillance, air traffic control, ground-controlled intercept, and aviation data-link connectivity for the I Marine Expeditionary...
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    terminal phases of the interception mission; instead, the F-94 would largely be directed through traditional ground-controlled interception, akin to the preceding...
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    locator system, which relieves the aircraft from relying on ground-controlled interception systems and enables it to conduct independent multirole missions...
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  • producing additional targets that would complicate the operation of ground controlled interception (GCI) radars and their associated weapons like surface-to-air...
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    Establishment. Type 984 was a 3D S band system used for both ground controlled interception (GCI) and as a secondary early warning system. The Type 984...
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    command and control system. It was used by the United States Air Force for ground-controlled interception as part of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment...
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    The squadron provides aerial surveillance, Ground-controlled interception, and air traffic control for the II Marine Expeditionary Force. They are based...
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    altitude and engage the bombers. Ground controlled interception required constant contact between the interceptor and the ground until the bombers became visible...
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    use on the night of the landings. GCI 15082 was formed as a Ground Controlled Interception unit in August 1943 at Renscombe Down, near Swanage in Dorset...
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    The Dowding system was the world's first wide-area ground-controlled interception network, controlling the airspace across the United Kingdom from northern...
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    standard PVO doctrine: pilots were tied to a ground-controlled interception (GCI) system, which, through ground-based radars and data links, provided interceptors...
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    datalink, enabled ground-controlled interception (GCI) ground stations to steer the aircraft towards the target; in such an intercept, all the pilot had...
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    Air Defence Ground Environment, normally shortened to either UKADGE or IUKADGE, was the Royal Air Force's (RAF) ground-controlled interception system covering...
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    squadron that provides aerial surveillance, Ground-controlled interception, and air traffic control for the III Marine Expeditionary Force. Originally...
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  • certain heading or vector. This Dowding system was the first ground-controlled interception (GCI) system of large scale, covering the entirety of the UK...
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    an American made fighter-direction radar used for the ship ground-controlled interception (GCI) during World War II by the United States Navy. Variation...
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  • similar to CH were later adapted with a new display to produce the Ground-Controlled Intercept (GCI) stations in January 1941. In these systems, the antenna...
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    to be converted to fighter direction ships in order to have ground-controlled interception of enemy aircraft during landing operations but only Boxer was...
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    defence organisation developed by the British foreshadowed the ground-controlled interception system used in the Second World War. On 6 August 1914, the German...
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    Filter Room (category Military command and control installations)
    Headquarters lay at the top of the Dowding system - the integrated ground-controlled interception network that covered the United Kingdom. The operations were...
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    as Air Defense Direction Centers ("SCC/DCs") for commanding ground-controlled interception in sectors of the 27th, 30th, 32nd, 33rd, and 35th Air Divisions...
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  • equipped with improved aircraft interception radar, and became increasingly effective in ground-controlled interception (GCI). The difficult task of slowly...
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  • fighters were to supplement the Himmelbett (four-poster bed) ground-controlled interception technique, by co-operation with searchlight crews, mostly over...
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    Chain Home (category Ground radars)
    information to the fighter aircraft led to the first integrated ground-controlled interception network, the Dowding system. By the time the war started, most...
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    bombers looking for the vital railway junction at Crewe. A ground-controlled interception (GCI) radar station was added. In the 1950s, the site was modernised...
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  • AN/GPA-37 Course Directing Group (category Aerial warfare ground equipment)
    defense command, control, and coordination system for weapons direction (ground-controlled interception). During Air Defense Command's "Control Capability Improvement...
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    integrated air defense network, incorporating early-warning radars, ground-controlled interception (GCI) and AAA. The potency of this network compelled UNC bombers...
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