The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Navy gave a rare tour of the "golf ball" radar ship at Ford Island. The Missile Defense Agency conducted a tour Wednesday of the Sea-Based X-Band Radar ...

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The Navy is accelerating integration of a new, much more powerful radar system intended to find and destroy enemy drones, missiles and aircraft at farther ranges by combining ballistic missile defense ...

The Navy’s Sea-Based X-Band Radar was docked on June 29 at Pearl Harbor’s Ford Island, its unofficial home port. “With the addition of the long-range discriminating radar in Alaska, the homeland ...

Ship wakes, the characteristic wave patterns generated by vessels, provide a crucial indicator of maritime activity and hydrodynamic processes. When captured by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), these ...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship detection has emerged as a vital technique for maritime situational awareness, offering the ability to monitor vessels under diverse environmental conditions and ...