Sea-Based X-Band Radar

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The Sea-Based X-Band radar arrives in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, aboard the heavy lift vessel Blue Marlin on January 9, 2006, passing behind the U.S.S. ARIZONA Memorial. 

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060109-N-3019M-011 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Jan. 9, 2006) - The heavy lift vessel MV Blue Marlin enters Pearl Harbor, Hawaii with the Sea Based X-Band Radar (SBX) aboard after completing a 15,000-mile journey from Corpus Christi, Texas. SBX is a combination of the world’s largest phased array X-band radar carried aboard a mobile, ocean-going semi submersible oil platform. It will provide the nation with highly advanced ballistic missile detection and will be able to discriminate a hostile warhead from decoys and countermeasures. SBX will undergo minor modifications, post transit maintenance and routine inspections in Pearl Harbor before completing its voyage to its home port of Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 2nd Class Ryan C. McGinley (RELEASED)

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Sea-Based X-Band Radar Arrives in Pearl Harbor

Story Number: NNS060110-11
Release Date: 1/10/2006 3:58:00 PM
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060109-N-9643K-105 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Jan. 9, 2006) - The heavy lift vessel MV Blue Marlin enters Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, with the Sea Based X-Band Radar (SBX) aboard after completing a 15,000-mile journey from Corpus Christi, Texas. SBX is a combination of the world’s largest phased array X-band radar carried aboard a mobile, ocean-going semi submersible oil platform. It will provide the nation with highly advanced ballistic missile detection and will be able to discriminate a hostile warhead from decoys and countermeasures. SBX will undergo minor modifications, post transit maintenance and routine inspections in Pearl Harbor before completing its voyage to its home port of Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Journalist Joe Kane (RELEASED)

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060109-N-9643K-102 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Jan. 9, 2006) - A fisherman watches as the heavy lift vessel MV Blue Marlin enters Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, with the Sea Based X-Band Radar (SBX) aboard after completing a 15,000-mile journey from Corpus Christi, Texas. SBX is a combination of the world’s largest phased array X-band radar carried aboard a mobile, ocean-going semi submersible oil platform. It will provide the nation with highly advanced ballistic missile detection and will be able to discriminate a hostile warhead from decoys and countermeasures. SBX will undergo minor modifications, post transit maintenance and routine inspections in Pearl Harbor before completing its voyage to its home port of Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Journalist Joe Kane (RELEASED)

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060109-N-3019M-012 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Jan. 9, 2006) - The heavy lift vessel MV Blue Marlin enters Pearl Harbor, Hawaii with the Sea Based X-Band Radar (SBX) aboard after completing a 15,000-mile journey from Corpus Christi, Texas. SBX is a combination of the world’s largest phased array X-band radar carried aboard a mobile, ocean-going semi submersible oil platform. It will provide the nation with highly advanced ballistic missile detection and will be able to discriminate a hostile warhead from decoys and countermeasures. SBX will undergo minor modifications, post transit maintenance and routine inspections in Pearl Harbor before completing its voyage to its home port of Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 2nd Class Ryan C. McGinley (RELEASED)

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MDA's SBX radar is loaded aboard the Blue Marlin, in Corpus Christi, for its transit to the Pacific Ocean. The SBX will be home ported in Adak, Alaska in early 2006 as part of MDA's Pacific Test Bed. (Additional Sea-Based X-Band radar photos on Boeing Web Site.) 

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The Sea Based X-Band Radar (SBX) is slowly loaded onto the heavy lift vessel MV Blue Marlin as the ship semi submerges in the Gulf of Mexico.

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051114-D-0000X-001 Gulf of Mexico (Nov. 14, 2005) – The Sea Based X-Band Radar (SBX) is slowly loaded onto the heavy lift vessel MV Blue Marlin as the ship semi submerges in the Gulf of Mexico. SBX will provide missile tracking, discrimination and hit assessment functions to the Ground based Midcourse Defense element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. It will support interceptor missiles located in Alaska and California if required to defend against a limited long-range missile attack on the United States. Home ported in Adak, Alaska, the SBX can move throughout the Pacific Ocean in support of advanced missile defense testing and defensive operations. U.S. Department of Defense photo (RELEASED) 

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In February 2007 the Sea-based X-Band Radar successfully traveled from Hawaii to the waters of the Aleutian Island chain of Alaska. The SBX departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Jan. 3, and conducted numerous sea trials and exercises while en route to Alaska, and also continued the calibration of the X-band radar mounted on top of the ocean-going platform. 

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