PIRAZ
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PIRAZ is a United States Navy acronym for Positive Identification Radar Advisory Zone. The zone is defined by the air search radar coverage of a ship patrolling a designated PIRAZ station. The concept
PIRAZ originated to protect Yankee station aircraft carriers during the Vietnam war.
USS Agerholm was typical of the ships providing torpedo boat destroyer "shotgun" escort for the Gulf of Tonkin PIRAZ station.
On PIRAZ duty for the May 1972, aerial mining of Hai Phong harbor, USS Chicago's air controllers guided Navy and Air Force fighter pilots to intercepts downing 12 MiG fighters while a RIM-8 Talos missile destroyed a 13th MiG fighter.
A US Navy F-4J Phantom fighter typical of PIRAZ controlled CAP.
Radar picket
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A radar picket is a radar-equipped station, ship, submarine, aircraft, or vehicle used to increase the radar detection range around a nation or military force to protect it from surprise attack, typic
PIRAZ
…Radar Advisory Zone. The zone is defined by the air search radar coverage of a ship patrolling a designated PIRAZ station. The concept was similar to radar picket stations established in World War II. The PIRAZ ship requires a Naval Tactical Data System radio-linked computer installation to effectively identify…
Former radar station at Point Lay, Alaska.
USS Triton (SSRN-586)
Grumman E-1 Tracer
USS Goodrich (DDR-831) underway in 1950s radar picket configuration.