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To: Red Badger

This will not end well.


2 posted on 02/01/2025 9:55:56 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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It’s like the old us Pave Paws.


12 posted on 02/02/2025 12:35:18 AM PST by Gaffer
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It looks remarkably like COBRA DANE (which I spent some time at). COBRA DANE is L-Band (~ 1200 MHz) and was originally placed in North Dakota as a ballistic missile defense radar in to defend missile siloes. Jimmy Carter, may he burn forever in Hell, shut it down his first day in office, before it transmitted its first pulse.

It was later moved to the Western Aleutians where it has been reliably performing sentinel and reconnaissance duty ever since.

PAVE PAWS and BMEWS are ballistic missile early warning radars on the periphery of CONUS (including Greenland and Britain), operating at UHF (420 MHz, a slot allocated by the ITU for radio location.)

There is a HUGE three-faced Phased array in Taiwan, larger than BMEWS, and taller, sitting on top of an 8,000 foot mountain. Reputedly, the most powerful UHF radar in the world. The Taiwan Radar Surveillance Program is staffed by the Taiwan Air Force, and Raytheon. Much of the equipment is US access only inside a vault, including all of the radar controller software and a good deal of the IBM made hardware.


22 posted on 02/02/2025 5:36:27 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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