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The Dimona Radar Facility is a facility under construction near Dimona
Dimona

Dimona is an Israeli city in the Negev desert, to the south of Beersheba and west of the Dead Sea above the Arabah valley in the Southern District ....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 consisting of two 400 meter (1,300 feet) tall radar towers, designed to track ballistic missiles through space and provide ground-based missiles with the targeting data needed to intercept them. Using X-band radar, it can detect missiles up to 1,500 miles away. The towers will be owned and operated by the US military, which will provide only second hand intelligence to Israel.

The towers of the facility are the tallest towers in Israel, and the tallest used for radar in the world.






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The Dimona Radar Facility is a facility under construction near Dimona
Dimona

Dimona is an Israeli city in the Negev desert, to the south of Beersheba and west of the Dead Sea above the Arabah valley in the Southern District ....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 consisting of two 400 meter (1,300 feet) tall radar towers, designed to track ballistic missiles through space and provide ground-based missiles with the targeting data needed to intercept them. Using X-band radar, it can detect missiles up to 1,500 miles away. The towers will be owned and operated by the US military, which will provide only second hand intelligence to Israel.

The towers of the facility are the tallest towers in Israel, and the tallest used for radar in the world.