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| - The General Electric AN/GPA-73 Air Weapons Control System (colloq. "AWCS 412L", AN/CPA-73 was a mobile version) was a US Cold War air defense command, control, and coordination system developed during Electronic Systems Division Project 412L for weapons direction (ground-controlled interception, GCI, by "Fire Direction and Control Equipment"). The AN/GPA-73 was used as to create a "Base Air Defense Ground Environment" (BADGE II), for which Air Defense Command had recommended the system as "SAGE back-up (Mode Ill) control of BOMARC" in June 1958. When the AWCS was emplaced with the AN/FSA-21 Weapons Control Group computer for GCI, the system created a "miniature SAGE" military installation. The AWCS could also direct Project Nike surface-to-air missile fire from Nike Integrated Fire Control
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| - The General Electric AN/GPA-73 Air Weapons Control System (colloq. "AWCS 412L", AN/CPA-73 was a mobile version) was a US Cold War air defense command, control, and coordination system developed during Electronic Systems Division Project 412L for weapons direction (ground-controlled interception, GCI, by "Fire Direction and Control Equipment"). The AN/GPA-73 was used as to create a "Base Air Defense Ground Environment" (BADGE II), for which Air Defense Command had recommended the system as "SAGE back-up (Mode Ill) control of BOMARC" in June 1958. When the AWCS was emplaced with the AN/FSA-21 Weapons Control Group computer for GCI, the system created a "miniature SAGE" military installation. The AWCS could also direct Project Nike surface-to-air missile fire from Nike Integrated Fire Control sites equipped with the "412 Target Designation System" in the Battery Control Van in a space allocated by February 1957 "behind the ". and the AN/GPA-73. The 412L Joint Test Force was located at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base in 1963, testing revealed fragility that limited the unit to fixed emplacements, and "Tactical Air Command subsequently rejected the GPA-73 as part of its mobility forces." The 412L equipment supported "Det 1, 17th Air Force [in] the Allied Sector Operations Center III at Börfink", Germany, which had a nuclear bunker where on July 2, 1975, the 615th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron temporarily stopped 412L operations [for] Constant Keystone modification." Sites with the AN/GPA-73 planned for the Alaska Semi-Automatic Defense System (ALSADS) were cancelled on January 26, 1960, and the last "operational 412L equipment" was used by USAFE in Germany
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