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“Keep Space for Peace” 9th October 2012The Environs of USAF Menwith Hill”
Independence from America demo 4th July 2012
Independence from America demo 4th July 2011
“The Invisibles” 2nd October 2010
“Independence from America” demo 4th July 2010
“Independence from America” demo 4th July 2009
“Inauguration Day at Menwith Hill” 20th January 2009
“Keep Space for Peace” demo 4th October 2008
“Independence from America” demo 4th July 2008
“Independence from America” demo 4th July 2007
“Independence from America” demo 4th July 2006
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http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20130401_Giant_golf_ball_radar_ship_to_monitor_North_Korea.html
Giant 'golf ball' radar ship to monitor North Korea
By William Cole
POSTED: 12:39 p.m. HST, Apr 01, 2013
LAST UPDATED: 10:27 p.m. HST, Apr 01, 2013
The Sea-Based X-Band Radar, which many local residents have nicknamed the giant floating golf ball, spent much of the last year at Pearl Harbor. (Craig T. Kojima/ckojima@staradvertiser.com)
The towering Sea-Based X-band Radar, a fixture at a Ford Island pier for most of the past year, left Pearl Harbor recently for the second time amid heightened concerns over North Korea’s missile program.< Navy Region Hawaii said the 280-foot-tall radar tracking system got under way March 22 “to conduct routine systems checks at sea.” CNN, however, said the Pentagon made the decision to send the “SBX” and at least one ship to monitor North Korea’s moves. U.S. officials said a Japan-based U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer capable of shooting down ballistic missiles had been positioned slightly closer to the Korean peninsula, the Associated Press reported. The SBX, which has the appearance of a giant golf ball on a six-legged platform, sailed out of Pearl Harbor March 23, 2012, about three weeks ahead of what ended up being a failed April 13 North Korea rocket test. The Missile Defense Agency, which oversees the SBX as part of the nation’s ballistic missile defense system, could not be reached for comment today. The phased array radar inside the inflatable dome tracks U.S. and foreign missile tests with 45,000 transmission and receiving elements, and is so powerful it could see a baseball flying through the air 2,500 miles away, according to the agency. The SBX returned to Pearl Harbor in late May from its last voyage. Asked at the time if the radar ship monitored the launch, Pam Rogers, who was then a Missile Defense Agency spokeswoman, said, “We can’t discuss the nature of the SBX’s operations.” The one-of-a-kind, $1 billion SBX is a combination of an advanced X-band radar mounted on a mobile, oceangoing, semi-submersible platform.
The Missile Defense Agency said in February of 2012 that it planned to sideline the missile tracker by placing it "in a limited test and contingency operations status" to save $500 million over five years.
The change was detailed as part of the Defense Department's budget request for 2013, which set out $487 billion in cuts over the next 10 years that are separate from sequester cuts.
It remains unclear where the agency will keep the missile-tracking platform. Pearl Harbor's Ford Island has become its unofficial home port. Rogers said last year that the SBX would enter “limited test support status” in 2013.
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The Most Terrifying Drone Video Yet The Atlantic – Conor Friedersdorf – February 19, 2013 An Air Force simulation says researchers are at work on killer robots so tiny that a group of them could blend into a cityscape.
Science writer John Horgan’s feature on the many ways drones will be used in coming years is interesting throughout, and terrifying in the passage where he describes an effort to build micro-drones that are, as the U.S. Air Force describes them, “Unobtrusive, pervasive, and lethal.” Air Force officials declined a request to observe flight tests at a “micro-aviary” they’ve built, he reported, but they did let him see a video dramatization “starring micro-UAVs that resemble winged, multi-legged bugs. The drones swarm through alleys, crawl across windowsills, and perch on power lines. One of them sneaks up on a scowling man holding a gun and shoots him in the head.”
Read more: www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/like-a-swarm-of-lethal-bugs-the-most-terrifying-drone-video-yet/273270/
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Court Says Obama Can’t Talk About Drones and Still Call Them Secret
Mother Jones – By Adam Serwer – March 15, 2103 If you want to keep something a secret, you probably shouldn’t brag about it. EXPAND:
That may seem obvious. But the Obama administration’s habit of singing the virtues of its supposedly secret targeted killing program is the reason a panel of three federal judges on the DC Circuit ruled against the government on Friday, finding that the CIA cannot continue to claim it has not acknowledged its involvement in the use of drones in targeted killings. Quoting newly minted CIA Director John Brennan, former CIA Director Leon Panetta, and President Barack Obama himself, Judge Merrick Garland wrote that “it is neither logical nor plausible” for the CIA to say it would reveal anything not already public to admit that the Agency “at least has an intelligence interest” in such strikes. “The defendant is, after all, the Central Intelligence Agency,” the judges added. Friday’s ruling reverses a previous one from 2011 in which a lower court ruled in favor of the government.
Read in full: www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/03/court-says-obama-cant-keep-talking-about-drones-and-still-call-them-secret http://www.caab.org.uk/about/drones
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Massive TTA Array Being Deployed To North Korea!
公開日: 2013/04/07
The sea-based X-band radar that left Hawaii's Pearl Harbor last week is reportedly moving across the Pacific, along with the destroyer USS John S. McCain, to monitor North Korea's actions; http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/bl... The video is a mirror from the youtube channel; Ben TimeTraveler; http://youtu.be/7FWzThQuMDQ
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Sea-based X-band Radar
Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) is a floating, self-propelled, mobile radar station designed to operate in high winds and heavy seas. It is part of the U.S. Defense Department Ballistic Missile Defense System. The Sea-Based X-Band Radar is mounted on a fifth generation CS-50 twin-hulled semi-submersible drilling rig. Conversion of the vessel was carried out at the AmFELS yard in Brownsville, Texas; the radar mount was built and mounted on the vessel at the Kiewit yard in Ingleside, Texas, near Corpus Christi. It is nominally based at Adak Island in Alaska (though, as of April 2012[update] has never put into port at Adak) but can roam over the Pacific Ocean to detect incoming ballistic missiles. The vessel is classed by ABS and has the IMO number of 8765412.
Specifications
Vessel length: 116 meters (380 ft)
Vessel height: 85 meters (280 ft) from keel to top of radar dome
Vessel draft: approximately 10 meters (32 ft. 9 in.) when in motion or otherwise not on station; approximately 30 meters (98 ft. 5 in.) when on station
Vessel stability: remains within 10 degrees of horizontal on station (fully passive stabilization)
Cost: $900 million
Crew: Approximately 75-85 members, mostly civilian contractors Radar range: 2,000 km (1,242 mi.)
Displacement: 50,000 tons
Details
SBX-1 is part of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system being deployed by the MDA. Being sea-based allows the vessel(s) to be moved to areas where they are needed for enhanced missile defense. Fixed radars provide coverage for a very limited area due to the curvature of the Earth. The primary task SBX will carry out is discrimination (identification) of enemy warheads from decoys, followed by precision tracking of the identified warheads. The vessel has many small radomes for various communications tasks and a central, large dome that encloses and protects a phased-array, 1,800 tonne (4,000,000 pound) X band radar antenna. The small radomes are rigid, but the central dome is not - the flexible cover is supported by positive air pressure amounting to a few inches of water. The amount of air pressure is variable depending on weather conditions. The radar antenna itself is described as being 384 square meters. It has a large number of solid-state transmit-receive modules mounted on an octagonal flat base which can move ±270 degrees in azimuth and 0 to 85 degrees elevation (although software currently limits the maximum physical elevation to 80 degrees). The maximum azimuth and elevation velocities are approximately 5-8 degrees per second. In addition to the physical motion of the base, the beam can be electronically steered off bore-sight (details classified). There are currently 22,000 modules installed on the base. Each module has one transmit-receive feed horn and one auxiliary receive feed horn for a second polarization, so there are 44,000 feedhorns. The base is roughly 2/3 populated, with space for installation of additional modules. The current modules are concentrated towards the center, so as to minimize grating lobes. This configuration allows it to support the very-long-range target discrimination and tracking that GMD's midcourse segment requires. The array requires over a megawatt of power. In addition to the power consumed by the radar, the thrusters which propel the vessel are electric and require substantial power (maximum speed is approximately 8 knots). To support this and all other electrical equipment, the vessel currently has six 3.6-megawatt generators (12-cylinder Caterpillar diesels). The generators are in two compartments, one port and one starboard. The maximum power currently drawn is roughly 12 megawatts, and there are plans to expand the number of generators to eight, so that one entire compartment could be lost and the vessel would still continue to operate at full capability.
The active electronically scanned array radar is derived from the radar used in the Aegis combat system, and is a part of the layered ballistic missile defense (BMDS) program of the United States Missile Defense Agency (MDA). One important difference from Aegis is the use of X band in the SBX. Aegis uses S band, and Patriot uses the higher-frequency C band. The X band frequency is higher still, so its shorter wavelength enables finer resolution of tracked objects. The radar is designed and built by Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems for Boeing, the prime contractor on the project for MDA.
The radar has been described by Lt. Gen Trey Obering (director of MDA) as being able to track an object the size of a baseball over San Francisco in California from the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, approximately 2,900 miles (4,700 km) away. The radar will guide land-based missiles from Alaska and California, as well as in-theatre assets. The CS-50 semi-submersible rig on which the radar is mounted was built as the "Moss Sirius" at the Vyborg shipyard in Russia for Moss Maritime (now part of the Saipem offshore company). It was purchased for the Sea-based X-band Radar project by the Boeing company, outfitted with propulsion, power and living quarters at the AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas, and integrated with the radar at the Kiewit yard in Ingleside, Texas.
The first such vessel is scheduled to be based in Adak Island, Alaska, part of the Aleutian Islands. From that location it will be able to track missiles launched toward the US from both North Korea and China. Although her homeport is in Alaska, she will be tasked with moving throughout the Pacific Ocean to support her mission. The name given to the SBX vessel, "SBX-1", indicates the possibility of further units of the class. In circumstances when a vessel is required to be continually on duty over a long period of time, common naval practice is to have at least three units of the type available to allow for replenishment, repair and overhaul. Three further vessels of the CS-50/Moss Sirius design were under construction or contract at the Severodvinsk shipyard in Russia as of early 2007, but were configured for oil production. On May 11, 2011, Col. Mark Arn, the SBX project manager for MDA, said that SBX is only one of its kind and there are no current plans for another one.[1] In July 2011, a Missile Defense Agency spokesman explained that other, smaller radars in the Pacific will "pick up the slack" while SBX is in port with its radar turned off.[2]
Operational history
The SBX deployed in 2006. The ship has spent time for maintenance and repair at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii several times, including 170 days in 2006, 63 days in 2007, 63 days in 2008, 177 days in 2009, and 51 days in 2010. When not at Hawaii, the SBX has been on operational deployments in the Pacific, including traveling to waters off Alaska. The ship has not moored at Alaska, in spite of the construction of a $26 million, eight-point mooring chain system installed in 2007 in Adak's Kuluk Bay. On June 23, 2009, the SBX was moved to offshore Hawaii in response to a potential North Korean missile launch. Between 2009 and 2010, the vessel spent 396 continuous days at sea.[3] The SBX failed during a flight test on January 31, 2010, designated FTG-06. The test was a simulation of a North Korean or Iranian missile launch.[4] The test failure arose from two factors, the first being that algorithms in the SBX radar software which are designed to filter out extraneous information from the target scene were left disengaged for the test, and the second was a mechanical failure in a thruster on the kill vehicle.[5] During flight test FTG-06a on December 15, 2010, the SBX performed as expected, but intercept of the target missile was again not achieved. In May 2011, the SBX-1 entered Vigor Shipyard (formerly the Todd Pacific Shipyard) in Seattle for a $27 million upgrade and maintenance work by contractor Boeing.[6] The work was completed in about three months and in August 2011, SBX-1 departed Seattle for deployment.[7] In February 2012, the Missile Defense Agency requested only $9.7 million per year for Fiscal Years 2013 through 2017, down from $176.8 million in fiscal 2012. This reduced amount would be used to maintain SBX in a “limited test support” role, "while also retaining the ability to recall it to an active, operational status if and when it is needed.”[8] In April 2012 it was reported that SBX-1 had left Pearl Harbor and was assumed to be being deployed to monitor North Korea's planned Unha-3 missile in the launch window of 12–16 April 2012.[9] The vessel returned to Pearl Harbor on 21 May 2012.[10] It redeployed to monitor the next North Korean launch attempt at the end of 2012.[11] In April 2013 it was reported that SBX-1 was being deployed to monitor North Korea. [12]
The radar entering Pearl Harbor on the MV Blue Marlin.
The radar at Vigor Shipyards in Seattle.
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International X-Band Radome Transportation Project - U.S. Missile Defense Radar
公開日: 2012/04/09
Visit our Facebook Fanpage @ http://www.facebook.com/LGIinc Logistics Group International X-Band Radome Transportation Project 2004- 2005 Logistics Group International Inc. is a transportation broker. The equipment and trucks shown in these videos are not owned or operated by Logistics Group International inc. For more information, or to view more of our special projects visit: www.lgiinc.com Email: info@lgiinc.com Call: (713) 957-4812 En Español: (956) 728-8220 On February 18th, 2005 Logistics Group International successfully aided ILC Dover and the US Army Missile Defense Agency's X-band Radar Project Office in delivery of a key component of the Ground Based Mid-Course Defense (GBMD) system. The key component of the GBMD, is the X-band radar's, state of the art, protective Radome fabric designed by ILC Dover. This fabric, conceived by Raytheon Corporation, was packaged into 141'L x 21'W x 18"T, L.G.I. designed custom crate at the TCOM LLP hangar facility in nearby Weeksville, North Carolina. The United States Coast Guard Center in Elizabeth City, NC's waterfront, situated approximately six miles away from TCOM, was the perfect load point for the massive crate containing the Radome fabric. The crate, once loaded onto a coastal barge, traveled to Corpus Christi, Texas, via the Intercoastal waterway, for installation on the Sea based X-band radar platform. Logistics Group International with there 14 different logistical support entities and team of over 87 personnel ensured that the US Army would minimize impact and disruption to Coast Guard operations. They worked around the clock for three days, verifying site conditions, transporting the crate through the base, and assembling and dis-assembling the portable 650-ton crane and other support equipment. After a brief delay, due to weather, the Radome load proceeded smoothly, and the coastal barge sounded one prolonged blast with the Radome crate safely secured to the deck. The thorough site planning of Logistics Group International saved the US Army's X-band Radar Project significant transportation time in transporting the Radome to it's final destination in Adak, Alaska and provided an excellent example of successful inter-service cooperation. The X-band radar, which the Radome fabric protects from the elements, is a vital element of the Ground Based Mid-Course Defense system that defends our nation against Intercontinental Ballistic Missile attack. The radar is based on a high tech, fifth generation oil drilling platform. It is twin-hulled, self propelled and very stable in high winds and turbulent sea conditions. Its ocean-spanning mobility allows the radar to be repositioned as needed to provide radar coverage of possible threat missile launches from anywhere in the world. Once the radar is fully fitted onto the platform it will rise more than 280 feet from the platform keel to the zenith of the Radome and will displace nearly 30,000 tons. The radar and support systems are scheduled to be fully integrated and available for use in the Ballistic Missile Defense System by the end of 2005 ( http://www.acq.osd.mil/mda/ ). Logistics Group International would like to give thanks to ILC Dover, Raytheon, BAE Systems, Department of Defense, United States Coast Guard and all Contractors used to make the Transportation effort a success.
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Why is the Sea Based X Band Radar headed for Korea?
公開日: 2013/04/06
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SBX Tour
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Why is the Sea Based X Band Radar headed for Korea?
公開日: 2013/04/06
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SBX Tour
公開日: 2012/06/29
A tour of the SBX-1 (Sea-Based X-Band Radar platform), currently in port at Ford Island in Pearl Harbor. Part of the U.S. Defense Department Ballistic Missile Defense System, it's 280 feet tall, 380 feet long, with a displacement of 50,000 tons.
公開日: 2013/04/02
The US Navy is reportedly deploying the huge Sea-based X-band radar to the Korean Peninsula what suggests that North Korea could be hit by a massive HAARP-made earthquake anytime soon. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7435324.stm http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/cct/... http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/g... http://vlf.stanford.edu/research/expe...
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Noam Chomsky on Presumption of Innocence公開日: 2013/03/06
The amazing evolutionary path of Presumption Of Innocence from year 1215 to 2013... and its even more amazing time warp back to Pre-13th century standards, explained by Mr. Chomsky in 12 minutes. This extract is from an interview shot on January 22, 2013, as part of a documentary project Tipping Point Democracy. Find out more at http://janwellmann.com/nchomsky/
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N. Chomsky: so called missile defense is an offensive weapon
アップロード日: 2008/11/17 Please, sign the online petition: http://www.nonviolence.cz Interview of Jan Tamas with prof. Noam Chomsky. "The struggle to prevent the development of military bases and missile defense systems in Poland and in Czech Republic is of extraordinary significance; in fact it is no exaggeration to say that the fate of the species is at stake in these decisions". http://www.europeforpeace.eu
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Who Owns the World?
Who Owns the World? Noam Chomsky on US-Fueled Dangers From Climate Change
公開日: 2012/10/26
Visit http://www.democracynow.org to watch more reports on Democracy Now!, an independent, global news hour that airs weekdays on 1,100+ TV and radio stations. Visit to read the complete transcript, watch additional reports on this topic, and more information on award-winning journalist Amy Goodman. In the week when President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney debated issues of foreign policy and the economy, we turn to world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and MIT Professor, Noam Chomsky. In a recent speech, Chomsky examined topics largely ignored or glossed over during the campaign: China, the Arab Spring, global warming, nuclear proliferation, and the military threat posed by Israel and the U.S. versus Iran. He reflects on the Cuban missile crisis, which took place 50 years ago this week, and is still referred to as "the most dangerous moment in human history." He delivered this talk last month at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, at an event sponsored by the Center for Popular Economics. Chomsky's talk was entitled, "Who Owns the World?"
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