The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada...
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Distant Early Warning may refer to: Distant Early Warning Line, a series of radar stations in the Arctic, operated during the Cold War by the United States...
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Low SCR-270 AN/CPS-1 CXAM radar Freya radar Pinetree Line Mid-Canada Line Distant Early Warning Line Duga radar BMEWS AMES Type 80 AMES Type 84 AMES Type...
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attacks from across North America's polar region. It replaced the Distant Early Warning Line system in the late 1980s. The NWS consists of both long range...
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aircraft control and warning (AC&W) system along Alaska's coast and interior. The Alaskan segment of the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) was built, and...
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Constellation was used to serve as an airborne early warning system to supplement the Distant Early Warning Line, using two large radomes (a vertical dome...
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The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada...
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runway in 1953 to support the Distant Early Warning Line Radar station at Barter Island (BAR-MAIN). The Barter Island DEW Line station was operated by civilian...
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near Gordon's trading post. Starting in March 1953, a runway and Distant Early Warning Line radar station were built on the island by Western Electric Company...
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1955 Cape Lisburne became part of the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line), the most westernmost station on the line which stretched east across the northern...
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construction of the Distant Early Warning Line in Alaska and, as an expert in Arctic engineering,[citation needed] served as a consultant in early oil exploration...
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(266 sq mi). Bray Island was the home of FOX-A, a Distant Early Warning Line and now a North Warning System site. However, Bray Island has no permanent...
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Although the island is uninhabited there is both an unmanned Distant Early Warning Line base, called FOX-1 at 69°04′01″N 079°03′54″W / 69.06694°N 79...
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tip. A Distant Early Warning Line site is also located on the northern tip of the peninsula, that switched operations in 1989 to the North Warning System...
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DYE Stations were Distant Early Warning Line sites of the DEW Line eastern extension in Arctic North America in Greenland (DEW Greenland Extension, "DEW...
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such as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W), Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) and Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), to command and...
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during the Cold War. It was notably involved in building the Distant Early Warning Line, and is now involved in decommissioning it. It also became involved...
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scatter communication sites. It was an expansion of the former Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line). NARS was built for the United States Air Force (USAF) by...
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Takuligjuaq. Loks Land was the site of one of the stations in the Distant Early Warning Line radar defence network, and had the code number BAF-4A. The island...
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or the drivetrain losses associated with them. For the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW line) project, Western Electric and Alaska Freightlines, with...
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Dye 3 (section Distant Early Warning Line)
ice core site and previously part of the DYE section of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line, located at (65°11′N 43°49′W / 65.183°N 43.817°W / 65.183;...
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Line (MCL), also known as the McGill Fence, was a line of radar stations running east–west across the middle of Canada, used to provide early warning...
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operations, maritime rescue and resupply in the Arctic on the Distant Early Warning Line or North Warning System. The 212 is powered by a Pratt & Whitney Canada...
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was formerly the site of the Icy Cape DEW Line Station, a United States Air Force Distant Early Warning Line Radar station Icy Cape appeared on the 1880...
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and in and along the North Slope. With the announcement of the Distant Early Warning Line in 1954, Point Barrow was designed as a main site, and a military...
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airstrip was built by US defense in 1956, in order to support a Distant Early Warning Line station. The defense station was closed in 1991. Many remnants...
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of CAM-1A (Jenny Lind Island), a former Distant Early Warning Line site and home to the unmanned North Warning System site. Characteristics of the terrain...
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do not harm the eyes of aircrew or passengers. North Warning System Distant Early Warning Line Aviation in Washington, D.C. [1][dead link] Chung, Charles...
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since the end of World War II, including construction of the Distant Early Warning Line of radars and the creation of the North American Aerospace Defence...
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Territories, Canada. The airport was originally built to serve the Distant Early Warning Line site adjacent to Tuktoyaktuk. The site was chosen against the...
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