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Also known as FPS-35

The AN/FPS-35 was a long range early warning radar used within the SAGE network and its successors. It was one of the largest air defense radars ever produced, with an antenna across supported on one of the largest rolling-element bearings in the world.

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12 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Planning SAGE
  • New radars
  • Frequency agility
  • Overview
  • Montauk tower
  • List of towers
  • See also
  • References
  • Citations
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The AN/FPS-35 was a long range early warning radar used within the SAGE network and its successors. It was one of the largest air defense radars ever produced, with an antenna across supported on one of the largest rolling-element bearings in the world.

The FPS-35 was one of a suite radars developed under a 1955 Rome Air Development Center project to introduce designs that were more resistant to jamming through the use of frequency diversity. The -35 shifted frequency between , while the similar AN/FPS-24 operated between and the AN/FPS-28 between . These radars also incorporated moving target indication (MTI) in order to deal with significant problems that earlier designs had with radar clutter, which the SAGE computers were not able to process.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “AN/FPS-35” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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