Not to be confused with Category:United States general surveillance radar stations or United States space surveillance radar stations.
This category is for U.S. automatic tracking radar stations — ground radar installations for automatically maintaining alignment (autotrack) of the radar antenna toward an air target for continuously measuring its location, e.g., manned aircraft, winged missile, ballistic missile, surface-to-air missile, or meteorological balloon.
- Autotrack stations included dozens of CONUS Radar Bomb Scoring sites, several Matador missile operational sites in Germany, and ground-directed bombing sites beginning with an Army station at the end of World War II.
- Most autotrack stations were closed at the end of the Cold War with development of Precision-guided munitions (PGMs) with GPS accuracy, No-Drop Bomb Scoring systems, and portable phased array radars that measure target location without moving the antenna.
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