Editing Beale Air Force Base (section)

===Missile Warning===
[[File:PAVE PAWS&BMEWS.svg|thumb|300px|[[PAVE PAWS]] and [[BMEWS]] coverage]]

On 1 July 1979, the 7th Missile Warning Squadron brought a [[PAVE]] Phased Array Warning System ([[PAVE PAWS]]) radar site to Beale, a Protection Level 1, 10-story structure that can detect possible attack by land-based and sea-launched ballistic missiles. A large three-sided structure, the PAVE PAWS hosted two large AN/FPS-115 [[phased-array]] [[radar]] [[Antenna (radio)|antenna]]s.

Located in a [[cantonment]] area on the outskirts of Beale, the renamed [[7th Space Warning Squadron]] is now an [[Air Force Space Command]] (AFSPC) unit and it primarily uses its PAVE PAWS radar to detect submarine-launched ballistic missiles and disintegrating spacecraft and space debris. Mock missile attacks, site emergencies and simulated equipment failures also keep the Canadian and American crew busy. The 9th Security Forces Squadron provide security for the [[PAVE PAWS]] restricted area.<ref name="US_AF_Beale_Fact_Sheet_20120717_9thSFS">
{{Cite web 
|url=http://www.beale.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id%3D3960
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070122223033/http://www.beale.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=3960
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=22 January 2007
|title=9th Security Forces Squadron
|date=17 July 2012 
|work=Factsheet
|publisher=[[United States Air Force]]
|access-date=10 April 2013
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