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Peterson Air Force Base - Missile Warning
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Support Program (DSP) satellites and their associated ground
systems and personnel support the spacebased early warning
system. As the first system to detect missile launches, DSP
satellites are critical sensors in the United States' and Canada's
early warning system. DSP squadrons send crucial missile and
space launch detection and nuclear detonation reports to NORAD
and U.S. Strategic Command command centers at Cheyenne Mountain
AFS.
Members of the 21 SW operate and maintain a complex system of
U.S. and foreignbased radars that detect and track ballistic
missile launches, launches of new space systems, and provide
data on foreign ballistic missile events.
Today, ballistic missile warning is critically important to
U.S. military forces. At least 20 nations currently have nuclear,
biological or chemical weapons, and the technology to deliver
them over long distances. According to intelligence estimates,
during the next 10 years, several Third World countries will
develop the technology and capability to launch intercontinental
ballistic missiles at the United States.
The 21st Operations Group manages all operation units in the
21st Space Wing.
MISSILE
WARNING (space based, ground based)
The 21 OG provides spacebased missile warning data, serving
as a focal point for transition to the SpaceBased Infrared
Satellite system, and providing space communication data and
relay.
21 OG space-based missile warning units:
The 2nd Space Warning Squadron, Buckley AFB, CO., controls,
receives, processes and reports DSP mission information.
The 11 SWS, Schriever AFB, Colo., reached initial operational
capability in March 1995. The squadron uses data from DSP satellites
as part of the Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theater,
or ALERT, system to provide in-theater warning of tactical missiles
and other threats in direct support of warfighters worldwide.
It is the first operational missile warning unit to use technologies
and procedures developed directly from the lessons of Desert
Storm. The squadron provides near instantaneous accurate warning
information on shortrange ballistic missile launches.
The
137th Space Warning Squadron, Greeley, Colo., is a Colorado
National Guard asset that provides mobile DSP missile warning
and reporting.
21 OG ground-based missile warning units
The wing's groundbased radars are comprised of a sealaunched
ballistic missile, or SLBM, warning systemPAVE PAWS; a Ballistic
Missile Early Warning System, or BMEWS; and a Perimeter Attack
Radar Characterization System, or PARCS.
SLBM warning units are the 6th SWS, Cape Cod AFS, Mass., and
the 7th SWS, Beale AFB, Calif. Their mission is mainly to watch
America's coasts for incoming sealaunched or intercontinental
ballistic missiles, and warn the appropriate authorities.
The wing's two BMEWS radar units are the 12th SWS, Thule AB,
and the 13th SWS at Clear AFS. The 21st SW also has a detachment
at RAF Fylingdales, U.K., to coordinate cooperative missile
warning and space surveillance with RAF counterparts.
The wing's PARCS unit is the 10th SWS, Cavalier AFS, N.D.
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