HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The golf ball shaped sea-based X-band Radar in Pearl Harbo r has been removed for maintenance. The large dome, which was taken down Tuesday, is used to track and identify ...

The recent Netflix release of A House of Dynamite has drawn public attention to U.S. homeland missile defense system. In the film, Sea-Based X-Band Radar detects a missile flying across the Pacific ...

Mar. 4—Known to many Hawaii residents as "the golf ball " for its large white dome, the 280-foot-tall radar has been in Hawaii since October after 662 days out at sea—the longest it has ever deployed.

For the first time in 20 years, the massive Sea-Based X-band Radar (SBX-1) has deflated its protective dome at Pearl Harbor.

Far out at sea, a handful of unusual ships serve as roaming guardians and silent observers. This video explores the Sea Based ...

THE OBJECT THAT LOOKS LIKE AN OVERSIZE GOLF BALL IS ACTUALLY A 5,000 POUND DOME WITH X-BAND RADAR ENCASED INSIDE. HAVING AN INSTRUMENT LIKE THIS ON OUR CAMPUS, DIRECT ...

This floating behemoth — called the Sea-based X-Band Radar (T-SBX-1) — is an advanced missile defense system that tracks and identifies hostile warheads while they’re in flight, and it transfers this ...

Gryphon Technologies LLC, Huntsville, Alabama, is being awarded a $57,675,835 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract, including options for sea-based X-band (SBX) radar mission integration. This contract ...

The Raytheon-developed X- Band Radar (XBR) portion of the Sea-Based X-Band Radar, or SBX, performed successfully in a flight test of the Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the Ballistic ...

X-BAND PLANS: Washington and Tokyo continue discussing the possibility of deploying another powerful X-band radar in Japan to protect the U.S. and allies against North Korean threats, according to ...

Monitors are seen in the Operation Control Center of the vessel. The Missile Defense Agency hosted a tour of the Sea Based X-Band Radar on Thursday at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Product manager ...