Message posted by passenger 51 on November 27, 2000 at 02:58:25 EST:
I found a line drawing of a Soviet mobile radar on the FAS site - the link is below. It looks pretty similiar to the big sucker near the North Gate to me, although it would be nice if we had an even better image of it. Perhaps Gary has some other exposures that he didn't post that could shed some more light on the details? Also, has anyone ever tried taking a different angle shot of this thing? Say further north, or around the corner of the restricted area to the west? You'd probably be approaching 6+ miles of distance, but perhaps that would give a side view that would match up with the line drawing. At any rate, the drawing is of a Long Track target acquisition radar, circa late '60s, early 70's, that was used in coordination with the SA-6 and SA-8 systems. I'm searching for more info and some actual pictures, but if the data's correct, it sure would seem like a decent unit to test against low-observable acft.
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