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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
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).
PAVE PAWS transmitter building, Clear Space Force Station, Alaska, showing the two circular phased array antennas
Some of the 2,677 crossed-dipole elements in the phased array antenna
1986 operator and AN/FPS-115 console.
The Solid State Phased Array Radar System, colloquially Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radar network, is a United States Space Force radar, computer, and communications system for missile warn
PAVE PAWS
…measures are insufficient, and that additional layers of integrated air and missile defense would be required to enhance its survivability in war. The Solid State Phased Array Radar System (SSPARS) began replacing PAVE PAWS when the first AN/FPS-115 face was taken off-line for the radar upgrade. New Raytheon AN/FPS-123 Early Warning Radars…
BMEWS solid-state phased-array radar at RAF Fylingdales