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Norway and the United States, both founding members of the newly-formed NATO, began cooperation on the GLOBUS project during the Cold War era of the 1950s. [1] By 1988, the Globus I radar array was built and operational in the town of Vardø, just 50 km (31 mi) from the border between Norway and the Soviet Union [2] and within visible range of the Kola Peninsula, which is known to contain high ...
Vardø (Finnmark county): the GLOBUS radar, suspected ELINT station, active since the 1950s Vadsø (Finnmark county): SIGINT ( COMINT ) station, active since 1951 Kirkenes, Vardø, and Vadsø are close to the Russian border near Severomorsk in the Murmansk district on the Kola Peninsula , the home of the former Soviet Northern Fleet and now its ...
Vardø is the easternmost town in Norway (and in all the Nordic countries), located at 31°E, which is east of Saint Petersburg, Kyiv, and Istanbul. The eastern part of Finnmark is in the same time zone as the rest of the country, but it is more than an hour at odds with daylight hours. The largest industry in the town is fishing and fish ...
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ZIP code. 60551 (Sheridan, Illinois) Area codes. 815 & 779. [1] Norway is an unincorporated community in Mission Township, LaSalle County, Illinois. Located along the Fox River, the community was the site of an early Norwegian-American settlement. Today it is the site of the State of Illinois Norwegian Settlers Memorial. [2]
North Warning System. The North Warning System (NWS, French: Système d'alerte du nord) is a joint United States and Canadian early-warning radar system for the atmospheric air defense of North America. It provides surveillance of airspace from potential incursions or attacks from across North America's polar region.
The radar antennas are located in Tromsø, Norway; Sodankylä, Finland and Kiruna, Sweden, north of the Scandinavian Arctic Circle. The core in the tri-static system, is located at Ramfjordmoen, outside Tromsø, Norway with a 32 meter mechanically fully steerable parabolic dish used for transmission and reception in the UHF-band. Operating in ...
A Patriot system of the German Air Force in August 2005. The NATO Integrated Air Defense System (short: NATINADS) is a command and control network combining radars and other facilities spread throughout the NATO alliance's air defence forces. It formed in the mid-1950s and became operational in 1962 as NADGE.