AN/FPS-17
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The AN/FPS-17 was a ground-based fixed-beam radar system that was installed at three locations worldwide, including Pirinçlik Air Base in south-eastern Turkey, Laredo, Texas and Shemya Island, Alaska.
AN/FPS-17 antennas at Shemya, Alaska.
Beam pattern.
This diagram shows the beam pattern superimposed on the target area.
Cobra Dane
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The AN/FPS-108 COBRA DANE is a PESA phased array radar installation operated by Raytheon for the United States Space Force at Eareckson Air Station on the island of Shemya, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. T
AN/FPS-17
…Fox refers to a modification of the AN/FPS-80 tracking radar to the AN/FPS-80(M) configuration in 1964. These radars were closed in the 1970s when the Cobra Dane phased array radar was built to monitor missile tests. Shemya was redesignated from an Air Force station to an Air Force base in 1968. The AN/FPS-17…
Night view of the COBRA DANE radar
Displays for the COBRA DANE system, 1977
Personnel inside the data processing center, June 1977