Stunning Sea-Based X-Band Radar

March 12th, 2009 | by admin |

This massive structure area is nothing less than an X-band radar. This is a mobile radar station is part of the Ballistic Missile Defense of the United States of America.

The platform was built in Vyborg, Russia, but is based on a design made in Norway for oil drilling platforms.

The conversion and installation of radar took place in Brownsville, Texas. The radar is based on the island of Adak in Alaska, but often travels across the Pacific Ocean, where there is need to improve missile defense.

With 116 meters in length and a height of 85 meters has a crew of eighty-five people, mostly civilians and displaced more than fifty thousand tons of water when in motion, however, is surprisingly stable in all kinds of weather conditions.