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MARC recordFloating 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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