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The Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX-1) is a floating, self-propelled, mobile active electronically scanned array early-warning radar station designed to operate in high winds and heavy seas. It was developed as part of the United States Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Ballistic Missile Defense System.
TPY-2 radar in travelling configuration View from the back on a deployed TPY-2 radar. The AN/TPY-2 Surveillance Transportable Radar, also called the Forward Based X-Band Transportable (FBX-T) is a long-range, very high-altitude active digital antenna array [1] [2] X band surveillance radar designed to add a tier to existing missile and air defence systems.
The X-Band radar system, which is part of the THAAD system, has been deployed at Nevatim since 2008. [57] In 2012, the U.S. AN/TPY-2 early missile warning radar station on Mt. Keren in the Negev desert was the only active foreign military installation in Israel. [58]
NEXRAD or Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the United States Department of Commerce, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) within the Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Air Force within the ...
Design. Cross-section of the active radar homing head of a Kh-35E missile at MAKS 2005. Kh-35E model at MAKS 2009. The Kh-35 missile is a subsonic weapon featuring a normal aerodynamic configuration with cruciform wings and fins and a semisubmerged air duct intake. The propulsion unit is a turbofan engine.
AN/APS-1 X band radar tail warning radar; AN/APS-2 S band search radar used with AN/APQ-5 for North American PBJ-1 PBM-5S Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer; AN/APS-3 X band search and bombing radar for PBJ-1 Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina Grumman TBM-1D/3E Lockheed PV-1 Ventura Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon and North American P-82F Twin Mustang
Sea-based X-band Radar platform arriving in Pearl Harbor in January 2006. Expenditures on the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense program were estimated to be US$30.7 billion by 2007. [ 27 ] In 2013, it was estimated that the program would cost $40.926 billion from inception through fiscal year 2017; in 2013–17 spending was to total $4.46 billion ...
Discussions between Japan and the United States are currently underway. The new X-Band would join an existing radar that was installed in northern Japan in 2006 and a third X-Band could be placed in South East Asia. The resulting radar arc would cover North Korea, China and possibly even Taiwan. [47]