US radar installation for monitoring Soviet missile tests
Night view of the COBRA DANE radar
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 intelligence about Russia's ICBM program in support of verification of the SALT II arms limitation treaty. Its single face 29 m (95 ft) diameter phased array radar antenna 52°44′14″N174°05′29″E / 52.7373°N 174.0914°E / 52.7373; 174.0914 faces the Kamchatka Peninsula and Russia's Kura Test Range. COBRA DANE operates in the 1215–1400 MHz band and can track items as small as a basketball sized drone at distances of several hundred miles.[2]
The "COBRA" designation indicates a general Defense Intelligence program.[3]
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The AN/FPS-108 COBRADANE is a PESA phased array radar installation operated by Raytheon for the United States Space Force (originally for the United States...
"CobraDane" on Shemya. Designated as the AN/FPS-108, CobraDane replaced AN/FPS-17 and AN/FPS-80 radars. Becoming operational in 1977, CobraDane also...
AN/FPS-17 and AN/FPS-80 radars and since 1977 the more powerful AN/FPS-108 COBRADANE phased-array radar. Eareckson Air Station is located on the western tip...
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the squadron, originally the 16th Surveillance Squadron, operated the CobraDane space detection system at Shemya Air Force Base, Alaska. The 16th Electromagnetic...
Retrieved 21 October 2007. Pike, John. "COBRADANE". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 7 November 2019. US Air Force. "COBRA GEMINI". National Security Space Road...
which developed other PAVE systems--"CF" the unit for "the COBRA system" with the CobraDane (AN/FPS-108) radar. By 1979, PAVE systems used the term Precision...
the island. One of the most recognizable features of the island is the COBRADANE radar system. This radar was built in 1976 and brought on-line in 1977...
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Debris Telescope, TIRA, the Goldstone, Haystack, and EISCAT radars and the CobraDane phased array radar, to be used in debris-environment models like the ESA...
were: COBRA JUDY aboard the missile range instrumentation ship USNS Observation Island, then off the coast of Kamchatka; Shemya Island's COBRADANE line...
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numeric names: authors list (link) Lingley, Robb (27 December 2017). "COBRADANE Radar:Protecting the U.S. from abroad". Peterson Air Force Base. US Air...
radars and aircraft to monitor impacts at Kura. One of these radars, CobraDane, was fielded in 1977 at Shemya specifically for this purpose.[citation...
Space Warning Squadron also supports the operation of the AN/FPS-108 CobraDane at Eareckson Air Station, and both the 7th Space Warning Squadron and...
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In April 2013, the 13th Space Warning Squadron gained oversight of the CobraDane radar at Eareckson Air Station, Alaska. On 20 April 2016, the GEODSS detachments...
Sea-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) Detection and Warning System, COBRADANE, and the Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System (PARCS)...
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