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Originally known as HAVE STARE, the Globus II radar was built by the Raytheon Company at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California and became operational in 1995. It is designated AN/FPS-129 according to the U.S. military's Joint Electronics Type Designation System, as it is the 19th design of an Army-Navy “Fixed, Radar, Search” electronic device. [6]
Raytheon builds it as part of an X-band family, along with the National Missile Defense (NMD) X-Band Radar (XBR) and AN/FPS-129 HAVE STARE. [5] The use of X band provides better target resolution than lower frequency bands, for example the L band, though lower frequency bands generally have better performance in detecting low RCS targets. The X ...
AN/FPS-27 Long Range search radar; AN/FPS-30 long-range search radar; AN/FPS-35 long range search radar; AN/FPS-41 meteorological radar; AN/FPS-49 Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) tracking radar; AN/FPS-49A variant of FPS-49 with different radome for Thule Site J; AN/FPS-92 variant of FPS-49 with improvements for Clear AFS, Alaska
PAVE PAWS (PAVE Phased Array Warning System) is a complex Cold War early warning radar and computer system developed in 1980 to "detect and characterize a sea-launched ballistic missile attack against the United States". [1] The first solid-state phased array deployed [2] used a pair of Raytheon AN/FPS-115 phased array radar sets at each site ...
The AN/FPS-19 was a long-range search radar developed for the NORAD Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) by Raytheon. It was an L-band system working between 1220 and 1350 MHz produced by a 500 kW magnetron. Two such systems were placed back-to-back, one with an antenna that produced a narrow beam to improve range for long-range detection, and ...
The AN/FPS-117 is an L-band active electronically scanned array (AESA) 3-dimensional air search radar first produced by GE Aerospace in 1980 and now part of Lockheed Martin. [1] [2] The system offers instrumented detection at ranges on the order of 200 to 250 nautical miles (370 to 460 km; 230 to 290 mi) and has a wide variety of interference and clutter rejection systems.
The FPS-3. The AN/FPS-20 was a widely used L band early warning and ground-controlled interception radar system employed by the United States Air Force Air Defense Command, the NORAD Pinetree Line in Canada, the USAF CONAD in the continental United States, and a variety of other users. The design started life as the Bendix AN/FPS-3 in 1950, was ...
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 States Air Force) at Eareckson Air Station on the island of Shemya, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. [ 1 ] The system was built in 1976 and brought online in 1977 for the primary mission of gathering ...