Denver Air Defense Sector
| Denver Air Defense Sector | |
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 The 5-sided Denver ADS had corners in Idaho, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Nevada. The Super Combat Center near the 40th parallel northfor both sectors of the Rocky Mountain Division was also to be used as a Direction Center (SCC/DC).
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| Country | United States |
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| Part of | Austere SAGE area |
| Military installations |
SCC/DC: [never built] ADC airbases: tbd AFB Radar stations: Lowry AFB, … |
| Location | planned SCC/DC site 39°21.7′N 104°38.9′W / 39.3617°N 104.6483°W (approx.) |
The Denver Air Defense Sector was a NORAD geographic area designated during the Cold War in the Zone of Interior (ZI) for both air defense and air traffic control, as well as the name of the planned military unit for conducting radar surveillance and fighter-interceptor operations in the sector area. The Denver ADS spanned the entire state of Colorado, nearly all of Utah, most of Wyoming and western Nebraska, and small parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada. Targets in the sector included the military/industrial facilities and urban civilian populations of the metropolitan areas at Salt Lake City, Cheyenne, Denver, and Colorado Springs—the Colorado underground ICBM construction began in tbd. (Omaha and Wichita military/industrial complexes were in the Sioux City sector).
Along with the adjacent Reno Air Defense Sector, the Denver ADS was designated to be in the 27th Air Division ("Rocky Mountain" division) between August 1 and December 31, 1958, under NORAD's July 25, 1958, SAGE Geographic Reorganization Plan for the orderly transition and phasing from the manual to the" SAGE Defense System of radar stations, interceptor bases, and a new computer and communications network creating a Semi-Automatic Ground Environment.
After 10 Super Combat Center (SCC) in underground bunkers were designated by the "USAF ADC Plan" approved by NORAD on December 20, 1958, additional Air Defense Command planning designated an SCC was to be constructed for command and control. The Denver SCC/DC was planned to become operational by May 1964.
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