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This is an incomplete list of ground-based radars operated by the United States Marine Corps since the service first started utilizing radars in 1940. [1] The Marine Corps' has used ground-based radars for anti-aircraft artillery fire control, long range early warning, Ground-controlled interception (GCI), ground directed bombing, counter-battery radar, short-range cueing for man-portable air ...
Thule Site J (J-Site) is a United States Space Force (USSF) radar station in Greenland near Pituffik Space Base for missile warning and spacecraft tracking.The northernmost station of the Solid State Phased Array Radar System, the military installation was built as the 1st site of the RCA 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System and had 5 of 12 BMEWS radars.
MADRE over-the-horizon radar at the NRL's Chesapeake Bay Detachment U.S. Navy Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar station. The most common type of OTH radar, OTH-B (backscatter), [3] uses skywave or "skip" propagation, in which shortwave radio waves are refracted off an ionized layer in the atmosphere, the ionosphere, and return to Earth some distance away.
Blighter B202 Mk 2 - Man-portable electronic-scanning ground surveillance radar; Blighter B303 - Vehicle-mountable electronic-scanning ground surveillance radar; Blighter Revolution 360 - Vehicle-mountable electronic-scanning ground surveillance radar; Blighter B400 Series - Fixed installation, modular electronic-scanning ground surveillance radar
Site C-6 was the 1971-84 location of the Alternate Space Surveillance Center [15]. In 1972 20% of the site's "surveillance capability…became dedicated to search for SLBMs" [43] (the USAF SLBM Phased Array Radar System was initiated In November 1972 by the JCS [44] while the Army's MSR and PAR phased arrays for missile defense were
GLOBUS is a radar system in the town of Vardø in Vardø Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway. It is operated by the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) and its official uses are primarily space observation and Arctic airspace monitoring for Norway's national interest, though the site's close proximity to known Russian naval bases as well as U.S. involvement in construction and funding have ...
AN/FPS-17 antennas at Shemya, Alaska. The AN/FPS-17 was a ground-based fixed-beam radar system that was installed at three locations worldwide, including Pirinçlik Air Base (formerly Diyarbakir Air Station) in south-eastern Turkey, Laredo, Texas and Shemya Island, Alaska.
Dunay radar, Soviet missile defence radar; GIRAFFE, Swedish family of early warning radar systems; EL/M-2080 Green Pine, Israeli ground-based missile-defense radar by Elta; EL/M-2090, Israeli ground-based very long range early-warning radar system; Erieye, Swedish airborne system of surveillance radar; Jindalee, Australian over-the-horizon ...