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Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) was a Unified Combatant Command of the United States Department of Defense, tasked with air defense for the Continental United States. It comprised Army, Air Force, and Navy components. It included Army Project Nike missiles (Ajax and Hercules) anti-aircraft defenses and USAF interceptors (manned aircraft and BOMARC missiles). The primary purpose of continental air defense during the CONAD period was to provide sufficient attack warning of a Soviet bomber air raid to ensure Strategic Air Command could launch a counterattack without being destroyed. CONAD controlled nuclear air defense weapons such as the 10 kiloton W-40 nuclear warhead on the CIM-10B BOMARC. The command was disestablished in 1975 and the USAF component, Aerospace Defense Command, became the US's executive organization for US NORAD operations. ==Background== Consideration of a joint command for air defense began in 1947 at the end of the reorganization that created the new U.S. Air Force. After the USAF initiated a 1949 experimental military program for the "1954 interceptor" to counter expected Soviet bomber advances, the Army deployed M-33 Fire Control for AA artillery in 1950. A proposal for a joint/unified command for air defense was initiated (and failed) in 1950. The new Air Defense Command (ADC) at Ent AFB and ARAACOM staffed in the nearby Antlers Hotel (Colorado) was established in 1951. The same year, the Priority Permanent System began replacing the post-war Lashup Radar Network. After a direct telephone line was installed in mid-July 1950 between the 1948 General Ennis C. Whitehead's Mitchel Field headquarters and the 26th Air Division HQ at Roslyn Air Warning Station ("the beginning of the Air Force air raid warning system".) When the Korean War broke out, the USAF established the Pentagon Air Force Command Post, from which President Harry S. Truman "had a direct telephone line installed to the White House. By 1953, continental air defenses included assets of five organizations, including Alaskan Air Command, responsible to the JCS. *ADC's "SAGE radar stations, the fighter interceptor squadrons, and the Air Defense Direction Center" *ARAACOM's AAA artillery, Nike Ajax missiles, and a "network of fire control centers and target acquisition radars" *Alaskan Air Command (AAC) with interceptors and radars at North America's northwest *The US's Northeast Air Command (NEAC) in northeast Canada and Thule Air Force Base, Greenland *Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Air Defense Command's interceptors 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Continental Air Defense Command」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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