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Amerikansk militær radar.
Del af USAs
National Missile Defence-systemet, stjernekrigsprojekter. Der
er ifølge det daværende US
Ballsitic Missile Defence Organization, marts 1999, planlagt
oprettelse af x-band radarer på følgende baser:
Shemya; Adak,
Beale, Clear, Cape Cod, Fylingdales,
Thule, Sydkorea, Grand Forks og
Hawaii.
The X-Band radar has been installed only in Hawaii so far. When it
was first mooted for Fylingdales in 2001, there was great concern.
The Hawaii installation, a huge golf ball and development included
a 14-storey building. The main concern re: Fylingdales was the fact
that it is in the National Park. Even the Deputy Prime Minister
said that the plans would go to Public Inquiry and it could take 5
years for permission to be granted. No plans have yet been
submitted.
When the Secretary of State for Defence Geoff Hoon was questioned
by the House of Commons Defence Committee about the Fylingdaes
upgrade, he stated that the X-Band radar was likely to be located
on a rig (like
an oil rig) at sea.
There has been big fuss about the BMD plans at Fylingdales,
particularly a newspaper report (Independent on Sunday 17 October
2004) that permission had secretly been granted for interceptor
missiles to be installed. The MoD had to assure the local authority
in December that this was not so...it is highly unlikely that there
will be any more external development at Fylingdales.
The Fylingdales upgraded EWR cannot be used for missile defence
without the other elements in the total system. These are X-band
radar (for precision identification and guidance of interceptor
misiles); Space-based Infrared System (Menwith Hill); MILSTAR; interceptor missiles; GPS for synchronisation of all the
elements.
- Se også: ABM-traktaten
; ELINT ;
C3I ; Globus II ; GMD ; RADINT ;
Rumimperialisme ; rumkrig ; SIGINT ;
Upgraded Early Warning Radars.
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- Arms Control Association: Fact Sheets: U.S. Missile Defense
Programs at a Glance.
http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/usmissiledefense.asp
Associated Press: Oahu may get giant radar : The military
assesses the potential impact of a missile defense dome off
Kalaeloa. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Wednesday, July 16, 2003.
http://starbulletin.com/2003/07/16/news/story1.html
Boeing Team Completes Sea-Based X-Band Radar
Integration.
http://aero.ihs.com/news-05Q2/boeing-x-band-radar-integration.jsp
Missile Defense Limitations in Testing: Radar Beacon.
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/bmd/radar_beacon.html
MissileThreat: Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX).
http://www.missilethreat.com/systems/sbx_usa.html
MissileThreat: Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
(THAAD).
http://www.missilethreat.com/systems/thaad_usa.html
Pike, John: Ground Based Radar [GBR] / X-band Radar
[XBR].
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/gbr.htm
Raytheon's BMDS X-Band Radar Successfully Lifted Aboard the
SBX-1 Platform.
http://www.rightnation.us/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t73838.html
Sellevag, Inge: The US kept silent about ABM Treaty
problem.
Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT ;
Bergens Tidende (June 7, 2000).
http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/is0608.htm
Sellevag, Inge: Uncovering Vardø. The Bulletin of
Atomic Scientists, March/April 2000, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 26-29)
http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/2000/ma00/ma00sellevag.html
United States Department of Defense : Missile Defense Radar Site
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