Army Places Radar In Juneau To Track Missile

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Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
June 2, 2008 By Associated Press
JUNEAU — The Army’s Missile Defense Agency is establishing a presence in Juneau.
The agency on Saturday placed a powerful, mobile radar station in Alaska’s capital.
The radar array will take part in testing how well warheads can be knocked from the sky.
Three tractor-trailer-size radar units and support equipment were unloaded and placed by construction workers at the Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute at Lena Point.
Sometime in mid-July, a missile is scheduled to launch from Kodiak.
An intercepting missile may be fired from California to try to destroy the Kodiak missile.
Radar in Juneau will track the first part of the Kodiak missile’s flight.
 
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