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==Replacement and disposition== For airborne command posts, "as early as 1962 the Air Force began exploring possibilities for an [[Airborne early warning and control|Airborne Warning and Control System]] (AWACS)",{{r|Schaffel}}{{rp|266}} and the [[Strategic Defense Architecture]] (SDA-2000) planned an integrated air defense and [[air traffic control]] network. The USAF declared [[full operational capability]] of the first seven [[Joint Surveillance System]] ROCCs on December 23, 1980,{{r|DelPapa}} with Hughes [[AN/FYQ-93]] systems,<ref name=Equip>{{cite web |title=USAF Air Defense Radar Equipment |url=http://www.radomes.org/museum/equip.php |publisher=Online Radar Museum |access-date=2013-02-22 |quote=[[AN/FPS-24]]…Frequency-diverse search radar designed for SAGE [also:] [[AN/FPS-26]]…[[AN/FPS-27]]…[[AN/FPS-28]]…Field tested at [[Houma AFS]], LA |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128202438/http://www.radomes.org/museum/equip.php |archive-date=2013-01-28 }}</ref> and many of the SAGE radar stations became [[Joint Surveillance System]] (JSS) sites (e.g., San Pedro Hill Z-39 became FAA [[Ground Equipment Facility J-31]].) The North Bay AN/FSQ-7 was dismantled and sent to [[The Computer Museum, Boston|Boston's Computer Museum]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2013}} In 1996, AN/FSQ-7 components were moved to [[Moffett Federal Airfield]] for storage and later moved{{When|date=April 2013}}<!-- The year or date of the move from Moffett to the museum needs specified --> to the [[Computer History Museum]] in [[Mountain View, California]].<!--{{Citation needed|date=February 2013}}--> The last AN/FSQ-7 centrals were demolished at McChord AFB (August 1983) and Luke AFB (February 1984).{{r|SMECC}} Decommissioned AN/FSQ-7 equipment was also used as science fiction cinema and TV series props (e.g., [[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]], amongst others).
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