File:1961 Eyes of the North - minute 4-51 -- BMEWS arcs and Q points.png
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Description1961 Eyes of the North - minute 4-51 -- BMEWS arcs and Q points.png |
English: The Thule J-site BMEWS station's detection arcs of 200°[1] was a missile warning "fence" created by 4 radars' separate arcs: each AN/FPS-50 created 2 arcs (shown) centered at 3.5° and 7° elevation@BMW (exagerated in illustration.) Each arc was created by a smaller radar beam ~1° wide x 3.5° high at a "horizontal sweep rate…fast enough that a missile or satellite cannot pass through…undetected"@BMW (e.g., "Lower Fan" and "Upper Fan") --concerns in 1962 of "ERBM's (Extended Range Ballistic Missiles)" were that missile speeds after burnout would be higher than the initially-deployed Soviet ICBMs@NORAD1958B and prevent the sweeping "fans"(revisit time of 2 sec)@Skolnik from detecting the missiles.
A missile within the lower arc (~1.75-5.25° elevation) would be detected at a "Lower Fan Q Point" (black dot) and then by the upper fan (black dot with jagged outline), which allowed the impact area to be estimated from "where the object crossed the two fans and the elapsed time interval between fan crossings"@BMW (displays showed the uncertain impact point as an elliptical area.) The free flight range of the missile outside the atmosphere (burnout to reentry) depends on the flight path angle and on the missile's parametric value of Q calculated from altitude and speed--additional ballistic range within the atmosphere to an estimated burst altitude was determined from computerized look-up tables in the Missile Impact Predictor.@BMW |
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- ↑ Hanley, Charles J--Associated Press (August 17, 1987). "Soviets, Eskimos protest Thule radar" (Google news archive). Star-News. Retrieved on 2014-03-09. "The radar, a Phased Array Warning System…can "see" 3,200 miles, 200 miles farther than the old system, and has a 240-degree arc…40 degrees more than the old."
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