Early-warning radar
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An early-warning radar is any radar system used primarily for the long-range detection of its targets, i.e., allowing defences to be alerted as early as possible before the intruder reaches its target
PAVE PAWS Early-warning radar, Alaska
RAF Fylingdales, Pave Paws Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, North Yorkshire
AWACS plane
PAVE PAWS
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PAVE PAWS is a complex Cold War early warning radar and computer system developed in 1980 to "detect and characterize a sea-launched ballistic missile attack against the United States". The first soli
Early-warning radar
…NETRA, Indian airborne early warning and control aircraft PAVE PAWS, the US early warning radar RAF Fylingdales, British early warning radar…
The Cape Cod Space Force Station AN/FPS-115 (white structure with circular array) on 1 October 1986 was 1 of 2 while two more FPS-115s were being built. At the beginning of the Cold War, the Cape Cod landform had a Permanent System radar station (1951 North Truro AFS), and the offshore Texas Tower 2 was at George's Bank (closed 1963).
Some of the 2,677 crossed-dipole elements in the phased array antenna
1986 operator and AN/FPS-115 console.