A National Catastrophe is upon us all...
...or at least to us military geeks.
The US Government is dismantling a remarkable piece of equipment, the AN/FPS-118 Over-The-Horizon-Backscatter (OTH-B) Radar, the world's largest fixed radar. Twice the size of NYC's Central Park, it could pick up targets as far away as 1,700 miles from our coasts. What are we to do now that we can no longer pick up Airbuses idling on the tarmac at Charles De Gaulle Airport?
Oh, I know that the USAF has deployed the AN/TPS-71 ROTHR (Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar), which consists of a 1.61 mile long array, which will continue in service, but it won't have the same cachet that the OTH-B did.
The US Government is dismantling a remarkable piece of equipment, the AN/FPS-118 Over-The-Horizon-Backscatter (OTH-B) Radar, the world's largest fixed radar. Twice the size of NYC's Central Park, it could pick up targets as far away as 1,700 miles from our coasts. What are we to do now that we can no longer pick up Airbuses idling on the tarmac at Charles De Gaulle Airport?
Oh, I know that the USAF has deployed the AN/TPS-71 ROTHR (Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar), which consists of a 1.61 mile long array, which will continue in service, but it won't have the same cachet that the OTH-B did.
posted by MKSheppard at 6:26 PM
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Agh, no longer can our bored NORAD controllers rely on our radar recievers to pick up pirate Russian radio broadcasts...
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