[HCDX] Floating radar leaves Honolulu

["Paul" <format4nz@xxxxxxxxx>]

KODIAK, Alaska » The sea-based radar considered a key to the nation's missile defense shield has left Hawaii for its home port of Adak, Alaska, at the end of the Aleutian Chain. 

The sea-based X-band radar, or SBX, is part of the Missile Defense Agency's $43 billion program and is used to track missile launches. It looks like a giant golf ball sitting atop a 27-story, partially submersible oil rig. 

The radar has been in Hawaii for repairs. It has never been to its home port.

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http://starbulletin.com/2007/01/13/news/story12.html

Eariler story ..

http://www.mauinews.com/story.aspx?id=16250



Paul
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