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Dome Installed on SBX Radar

May 17, 2005 :: The Missile Defense Agency :: News

The Sea-Based X-Band Radar has now completed its major assembly with the addition of the radar’s protective “radome.” The radome weighs 18,000 pounds, stands over 103 feet high, and is 120 feet in diameter. Made entirely of a high-tech synthetic fabric, the radome is supported by air pressure alone and can withstand winds more than 130 miles per hour. The entire SBX sits on a large, converted oil rig.
        The SBX, currently being constructed in Corpus Christi, Texas, will eventually be deployed from Alaska, and will serve as an integrated radar for the ground based midcourse defense system. Although the SBX cannot see past the horizon, it would be used for looking up, to aid interceptors in homing in on missiles in space above the Pacific—that is, those headed from locations such as North Korea toward the United States. (Article)

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