NORAD Plots New Course For North Warning System Replacement

FPS-124 radar at North Warning System Site LAB-3
A short-range FPS-124 radar at North Warning System Site LAB-3, which is located on Cape Kiglapait, Newfoundland and Labrador, has operated since 1992.
Credit: Raytheon via Canadian Department of National Defense
As ambitious Cold War-era projects go, the picket line of air defense radars above the Arctic Circle, stretching from Alaska to Greenland, ranks up there with the Polaris missile and the Lockheed SR-71. Russia’s latest cruise missiles detectable Incremental updates for NWS planned Unlike the latter...

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