http://www.crisscross.com/jp/news/363482
U.S. to deploy early warning X-band radar in Japan
Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 15:55 EST
WASHINGTON — The United States plans to deploy in Japan within the next six months a mobile X-band radar for an advanced early warning system against ballistic missiles, a senior U.S. Missile Defense Agency official said Monday.
The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force base in Tsugaru, Aomori Prefecture, is seen as the most likely candidate site to build the ground-based radar chiefly aimed at detecting incoming missiles from North Korea.
By: sferrin - 11th February 2006 at 16:16
http://www.marinetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1521041.php
“TOKYO — The United States has asked Japan to shoulder three-quarters of the cost to move Marines from their base in Okinawa but plans to build a new radar system for a joint missile shield in Japan in the next six months, reports said Wednesday.”
From that and the rest of the article it sounds more like a permanent facility. SBX is essentially a ship. Wouldn’t make sense to tie it to a pier and leave it there. Even the original cited article said “The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force base in Tsugaru, Aomori Prefecture, is seen as the most likely candidate site to build the ground-based radar …”
By: Distiller - 11th February 2006 at 08:49
SBX is going to Alaska.
Yes, or to one of the western islands of the Hawaii archipelago, don’t know right now.
But the article says “within the next six month”. Were to take it from if it’s not *that* SBX?
By: sferrin - 9th February 2006 at 14:24
I don’t know. But I guess it will be mobile, at least it would be logical to make it less vulnerable.
It might even be the SBX that was towed to Hawaii recently.
SBX is going to Alaska.
By: danrh - 9th February 2006 at 11:55
The system may be more relocatable than mobile. A facility able to host the system could be built in Okinawa.
Daniel
By: Distiller - 9th February 2006 at 11:10
I don’t know. But I guess it will be mobile, at least it would be logical to make it less vulnerable.
It might even be the SBX that was towed to Hawaii recently.
By: sferrin - 7th February 2006 at 20:14
So are they moving a mobile X-band radar there or are they building one onsite?
Sign In
February 7, 2006 at 4:58 pm