During the Cold War, the Soviet Union maintained a consistent policy of air superiority. The Alliance developed the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment or NADGE to counter this threat. This film was developed for training purposes to guide future system operators through the intricacies of NATO’s sophisticated air defence system: the NADGE.

NADGE consisted of a system of radars, computers and trained teams able to react as fast as possible to detect and discourage any Soviet air attack on European Allies. In other words, it was an electronic network of high-capability, high-speed computers made possible by the introduction of new radars and the modernisation of existing facilities.

An unbroken chain of stations ran from Norway to Turkey, providing a powerful barrier against the intrusion of enemy aircraft into the NATO European airspace. A total of 84 stations located in Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Turkey ranged from simple monitoring posts responsible for picking up enemy aircraft and reporting their presence to the control centre in charge of their interception, to the specially built operational stations. The United Kingdom had its own facilities that met NADGE standards.

The film was produced in 1972 at the request of the Vice-president of NADGECO Ltd., the industrial consortium in charge of building the NADGE system for NATO. It was intended as a demonstration tool for the training of operators assigned to the system, and not for general audiences. The script was developed in cooperation with the NADGE Management Office at NATO and the industrial members of NADGECO.

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