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February 12, 2007

Missile defense radar arrives in Alaska waters

  • The radar was constructed at two Texas shipyards and weighs almost 50,000 tons.
    • By MARY PEMBERTON
    Associated Press Writer

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A very powerful radar to be used as part of the national missile defense program made the trip from Hawaii aboard its oceangoing platform to Alaska waters, where it will remain until mooring facilities can be constructed.

    The $900 million sea-based X-band radar is the largest radar of its type. If the radar was based in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay it could provide detailed information about a golf-ball sized object over San Francisco, said Rick Lehner, a spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency in Virginia.


     
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