Dimona Radar Facility
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The Dimona Radar Facility is a facility under construction near Dimona
, Israel
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 AN/TPY-2 X-band radar, it can detect missiles up to 1,500 miles / 2,400 kilometers 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.
Dimona
Dimona is an Israeli city in the Negev desert, to the south of Beersheba and west of the Dead Sea above the Arava valley in the Southern District of Israel. Its population at the end of 2007 was 33,600.-History:...
, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
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 AN/TPY-2 X-band radar, it can detect missiles up to 1,500 miles / 2,400 kilometers 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.