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To: higgmeister

PAVE PAWS Warner-Robbins was disassembled and moved to Clear ABF, near Fairbanks, and is now officially BMEWS (Ballistic Missile Early Warning System) Clear. It was mostly a direct reaction to North Korea.

PAVE PAWS was for detection of SLBM (Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles.) Problem at Warner-Robins was that when aircraft using the base runways intercepted the beam, the RF from the radar exceeded allowable exposure for EEO (electrically explosive ordinance). Luckily no one was ever ejected through the canopy. (Stray radiation does not care about sequencers. Ejection seat first, canopy first, all the same to stray RF.) They worked out a timing procedure where the radar would shut down during take offs and landings, but no one was every happy with that.


53 posted on 12/24/2018 5:31:19 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Wow! That is amazing that the high power radiation was a hazard to ordinance. At McClellan we had M/W shots to the HF XMTR and RCVR sites, Davis and Lincoln. A couple of times a week the microwave would crash when a plane in the glide slope flew into the path.


63 posted on 12/25/2018 11:19:14 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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