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    Texas; the radar mount was built and mounted on the vessel at the Kiewit yard in Ingleside, Texas. It is nominally based at Adak Island in Alaska, but...
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    Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects...
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    Fogo Island Radar Station Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary...
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    Allan's Island Radar Station Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary...
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    Treasure Island Radar Bomb Scoring Site (call sign San Francisco Bomb Plot)[unreliable source] was a Strategic Air Command (SAC) automatic tracking radar facility...
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    Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its...
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    Over-the-horizon radar (OTH), sometimes called beyond the horizon radar (BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long...
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    Instrumentation Radar) is a radar tracking station on Roi-Namur island in the north part of the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. It is a high-sensitivity...
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    as Barter Island Airport or Kaktovik Airport. The acronym LRRS stands for Long Range Radar Site or Long Range Radar Station. Barter Island LRRS Airport...
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    Shemya (redirect from Shemya Island)
    population of 27 persons on the island. One of the most recognizable features of the island is the COBRA DANE radar system. This radar was built in 1976 and brought...
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  • Arab on Radar was a Providence, Rhode Island–based noise rock band founded in 1994. They went on hiatus in 2002. Members of the band went on to form or...
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    A radar detector is an electronic device used by motorists to detect if their speed is being monitored by police or law enforcement using a radar gun...
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    SC was an American-made air and surface-search radar used during World War II by the United States Navy. Variations include SC-1, SC-2 and SC-3. They...
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    hectopascals (703.5 mmHg). Around 9:00 am, radar data was disrupted. Roughly an hour later, communication with the island was completely cut off. The cyclone...
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    on the island in 1942 where the wreck is still intact. The island was briefly home to Middleton Island Air Force Station, an early warning radar station...
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    Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) is a form of radar that is used to create two-dimensional images or three-dimensional reconstructions of objects, such as...
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    Imaging radar is an application of radar which is used to create two-dimensional images, typically of landscapes. Imaging radar provides its light to...
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    radar countermeasure involving the dispersal of thin strips of aluminium, metallized glass fiber, or plastic. Dispersed chaff produces a large radar cross...
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    The history of radar (where radar stands for radio detection and ranging) started with experiments by Heinrich Hertz in the late 19th century that showed...
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    Freya Radar was a young Danish Flight Lieutenant, Thomas Sneum, who, at great risk to his life, photographed radar installations on the Danish island of...
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  • February 2023). "Google Doodle Champion Island Games is a free-to-play game celebrating the Corby Olympics". GamesRadar. Archived from the original on 26 July...
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    Roi-Namur (redirect from Roi Island)
    workers come via ferry from the island of Enniburr. The Namur side is home to the ALCOR, ALTAIR, MMW and TRADEX radar tracking stations. There is a small...
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    AN/SPQ-11 (category Sea radars)
    The AN/SPQ-11 Cobra Judy was a PESA radar found on the USNS Observation Island (T-AGM-23) missile range instrumentation ship. It was used for space tracking...
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    A radar speed gun, also known as a radar gun, speed gun, or speed trap gun, is a device used to measure the speed of moving objects. It is commonly used...
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    A radar picket is a radar-equipped station, ship, submarine, aircraft, or vehicle used to increase the radar detection range around a nation or military...
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    SCR-270 (redirect from SCR-270 Radar)
    was one of the first operational early-warning radars. It was the U.S. Army's primary long-distance radar throughout World War II and was deployed around...
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    Cobra Dane (category Cobra radars)
    The AN/FPS-108 COBRA DANE is a PESA phased array radar installation operated by Raytheon for the United States Space Force (originally for the United...
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    Texas Towers (category Air defence radar networks)
    Texas Towers were a set of three radar facilities off the eastern seaboard of the United States which were used for surveillance by the United States...
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    SK was an American-made air-search radar used during World War II by the United States Navy. Models included SK-1, SK-2 and SK-3. SK was a very high frequency...
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    on Ascension Island constructing the US Base. … The Base operations were eventually expanded by the addition of a Target Tracking Radar Station, which...
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