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(approx.) | established_type = Designated | established = }} The Denver 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. ==Geography== The area of the Denver Air Defense Sector was an irregular pentagon from the Great Basin's northerneastern corner through the Central Rocky Mountains to the East border (100.65 meridian West) in the Great Plains. Formed primarily from the southern portion of the pre-SAGE 29th Air Division, smaller additional areas of the 25th & 28th Air Divisions were included to the West, the 25th & 34th ADs to the South, and to the East the 31st, 20th, & 33rd ADs. After the USAF had proposed Lowry AFB in 1958 for a new NORAD facility (as it would be temporary USAF Academy facilities were to be vacated), the bunker for both the sector headquarters and the SCC/DC at the Denver Metropolitan Area was published in the January–June 1959 NORAD Historical Summary (declassified by NORAD/J3 in 1998). 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「Denver Air Defense Sector」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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