Mega-Radar Tracks Missiles
Credit: U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY
In September, the Sea-Based X-band Radar, a twin-hulled, self-propelled, $900-million platform, successfully tracked a target missile launched from Alaska while operating in the northern Pacific with the destroyer USS Russell. Cued by the radar to the missile’s approach, a ground-based interceptor...
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