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Record #177880:

Floating radar station prepares to sail for Adak / Paula Dobbyn.

Title: Floating radar station prepares to sail for Adak / Paula Dobbyn.
Author(s): Dobbyn, Paula.
Date: 2006.
In: Polar Times. (2006.), Vol. 3(8) (2006)
Abstract: Describes construction of floating radar station, modelled on oil drilling platform, for use as military installation in U.S. multibillion-dollar missile defence programme. Notes that station will float off-shore from Adak and that X-band radar will be linked to missile interceptors buried in underground silos at Fort Greely, Alaska, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
Notes:

Polar Times. Vol. 3(8) :26 (2006).

Keywords: 355 -- Defence.
621.396.96 -- Radar.
622.242.42 -- Offshore drilling platforms.
623 -- Engineering, military and naval.
M -- Engineering and construction.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*49) -- Alaska.
(*495.2) -- Aleutian Islands.
(7) -- North America.
SPRI record no.: 177880

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