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distant early warning

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distant early warning
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(Military) a US radar detection system to warn of missile attack See also DEW line


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The third and most challenging joint air defense undertaking of the 1950s was the construction of the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line), a transcontinental line along the 70th parallel, about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
Back in the bad old days of the Cold War a string of radar stations was established to give the US early warning of a Soviet nuclear attack It was called the DEW line, and DEW stood for Distant Early Warning Back in the bad old days of the Cold War a string of radar stations was established to give the US early warning of a Soviet nuclear attack.
The editors make good use of individual contributors' expertise in covering the history of bistatic and multistatic radar systems, Fluttar distant early warning (DEW)-line gap-filler radar, missile attack warning applications, planetary exploration, air surveillance, ionospheric measurements and wind measurements.
 
 
 
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