Super Combat Center

Not to be confused with NORAD Control Center.
Super Combat Center
The CFB North Bay underground bunker had been planned for a Super Combat Center but was equipped with a vacuum tube AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central after the Q-7 successor, the solid-state AN/FSQ-32, was cancelled.
Typemilitary installation
Site history
Built5 SCCs complete by May 1964[1]
5 SCC/DCs complete by May 1964[1]
3 above ground sectors with AN/FSQ-32 centrals

A Super Combat Center (SCC) was a planned Cold War command and control facility for ten NORAD regions/Air Divisions in Canada and the United States. For installation in nuclear bunkers, the command posts were to replace the last of the planned Air Defense Command Combat Centers to be built for vacuum tube AN/FSQ-8 Combat Control Centrals.

The survivable SCCs were to use solid-state (transistorized) AN/FSQ-32 equipment which was to provide the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment for operators at 10 Air Divisions — 5 of the centers were to also serve as Air Defense Direction Centers ("SCC/DCs") for commanding ground-controlled interception in sectors of the 27th, 30th, 32nd, 33rd, and 35th Air Divisions. ADC's November 1958 plan to complete the hardened SCCs by April 1964 included fielding 3 additional AN/FSQ-32 systems above-ground for the Albuquerque, Miami, and Shreveport sectors.[1] (Plans for vacuum tube AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Centrals to be installed in hardened "cube" buildings were continued for 21 SAGE Air Defense Direction Centers for most of the 27 NORAD Sectors.)[2]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference NORAD1958B was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ NORAD CONAD Historical Summary: July–December 1959, On 18 March 1960, the JCS advised NORAD that they had approved cancellation of the SCC program for the U.S.