Royal Air Force Menwith Hill is a Royal Air Force station near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, which provides communications and intelligence support services to the United Kingdom and the United
Radomes at RAF Menwith Hill
Aerial view of RAF Menwith Hill
A radome is a structural, weatherproof enclosure that protects a radar antenna. The radome is constructed of material transparent to radio waves. Radomes protect the antenna from weather and conceal a
RAF Menwith Hill
…a number of satellites operated by the US National Reconnaissance Office, on behalf of the NSA, with antennas contained in numerous distinctive white radomes, locally referred to as "the golf balls", and is alleged to be an element of the ECHELON system. The site is one of three main sites operated by the…
Geodesic radomes at the Misawa Security Operations Center, Misawa, Japan
Spherical radome mounted atop the mainmast of a Type 45 destroyer
A Boeing E-3 Sentry, showing its rotodome mounted above the fuselage
One of the first radomes. The radome (top) covers the H2S radar system rotating antenna (bottom) on a Halifax bomber