U.S. Plans to Install Massive Radar to Identify Missile Attacks

June 29, 2018

Albawaba News:

The U.S. military is planning to install a massive radar that officials say is designed to identify missile attacks against the U.S. mainland.

The $1 billion system is supposed to spot incoming missile warheads fired for Hawaii and other U.S. states and send the information to ground-based interceptor missile systems in Alaska, which will then try to shoot them down, Military.com reported Wednesday.

According to the report, the radar would be able to distinguish real warheads from decoys that are released to confuse missile systems. Senator Brian Schatz, a Democrat from Hawaii and a supporter of the project, said the radar would help give the Alaska missiles “better eyes,” said

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