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Orford Ness - Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (Overlay)

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Christmas Valley (OTH-B) air defense radar system

Christmas Valley (OTH-B) air defense radar system

The US Air Force's over-the-horizon-backscatter (OTH-B) air defense radar system
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Over the horizon backscatter radar site

Over the horizon backscatter radar site

This site in Moscow, Maine was used to watch for Soviet missile attack during the Cold War. Abandoned almost as quickly as the Cold War. During its operational lifetime it provided cover to many marijuana farmers as surveillance helicopter flights were not allowed in the vicinity.
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Fort Allen

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The Fort Allen Puerto Rico National Guard site in Ponce, PR has no residents, but it does include barracks and receiver site for Over the Horizon Radar run by 20 civilian defense contractors, on 940 acres. The Relocatable Over the Horizon Radar (ROTHR) is part of a surveillance network which designed to monitor flights over an area encompassing more than 1 million square miles in South America....
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RealTime Disasters and Emergency Monitor

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Norfolk Island

Norfolk Island

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Peoria and Eastern Railway, US

Peoria and Eastern Railway, US

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RAF Cold War Radar Station

RAF Cold War Radar Station

This is RAF Neatishead that during the Cold War identified incomming Soviet aircraft and directed RAF fighters to intercept. It was used until recently but is now closed. In the top left of the site the orignial radar is visisble, and the red roofed building to the south of this is the entrance to the nuclear bunker which housed and protected the operators. An F-4 Phantom is the guard gate.
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Skagen Radar Station

Skagen Radar Station

Skagen Radar Station
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P-3 AEW Sentinel at Corpus Christi NAS

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Greetings from Norfolk

Greetings from Norfolk

When you come to Norfolk by plane you'll be greeted from below.
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Mil Mi-14 at Mather Air Force Base, Sacramento

Mil Mi-14 at Mather Air Force Base, Sacramento

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