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https://www.airandspaceforces.com/sp...-radar-uk-site
Space Force Taps Northrop to Build Radar in UK for Monitoring Deep Space
The Space Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $200 million contract to build a cutting-edge space radar in the United Kingdom, part of a joint venture between the U.S., U.K., and Australia to monitor 22,000 miles above the Earth around the clock.
The Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC), as it is know, will include radar sites in each of the three countries and maximize coverage by sharing data to connect the three sites.
Northrop previously received a $341 million contract in 2022 to build the first DARC site in Western Australia, which is expected to be operational by 2026. The second radar site in the U.K. is slated to be finished by February 2030. The third radar will be based in the U.S., with all three sites to be completed by the end of the decade.
Once operational, DARC is expected to provide all-weather capabilities to detect, track, identify, and characterize objects moving through geosynchronous orbit (GEO)....
Space Force Taps Northrop to Build Radar in UK for Monitoring Deep Space
The Space Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $200 million contract to build a cutting-edge space radar in the United Kingdom, part of a joint venture between the U.S., U.K., and Australia to monitor 22,000 miles above the Earth around the clock.
The Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC), as it is know, will include radar sites in each of the three countries and maximize coverage by sharing data to connect the three sites.
Northrop previously received a $341 million contract in 2022 to build the first DARC site in Western Australia, which is expected to be operational by 2026. The second radar site in the U.K. is slated to be finished by February 2030. The third radar will be based in the U.S., with all three sites to be completed by the end of the decade.
Once operational, DARC is expected to provide all-weather capabilities to detect, track, identify, and characterize objects moving through geosynchronous orbit (GEO)....
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Why?
US is funding it. I presume they will also ensure they maintain it. The RAF will no doubt joint man it, but, as with Fylingdales, it won't be manpower intensive.
US is funding it. I presume they will also ensure they maintain it. The RAF will no doubt joint man it, but, as with Fylingdales, it won't be manpower intensive.
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Also with the construction, will the runway be torn up, i know its been inactive for 3 decades, lest the odd air assault exercise ..
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Don’t see why the shouldn’t stay there. The barracks were due to close in 2028, this should provide a reason to keep them open - unless they hand them back to the RAF and it becomes RAF Brawdy again, or more probably a Signals Unit.
As stated it’s one of 3 networked stations and, presumably, will have a small manning footprint.
As stated it’s one of 3 networked stations and, presumably, will have a small manning footprint.
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I guess the DARC site will be somewhere on the aerodrome, now that the shhNAVFAC site is now a business park?
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I am presuming, as an intel site, Feltwell consists of sensitive receivers and satellite dishes, not radar transmitters.
Not sure Lakenheath would be happy with a site using high power radars searching out to 22,000 miles next to a circuit full of F-15Es and F-35As carrying live munitions…
Anyone got a picture of a map showing the RADHAZ areas in East Anglia?
Not sure Lakenheath would be happy with a site using high power radars searching out to 22,000 miles next to a circuit full of F-15Es and F-35As carrying live munitions…
Anyone got a picture of a map showing the RADHAZ areas in East Anglia?
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theres a fair bit of room
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Northrop Grumman received a 76.6 million modification to previously awarded contract for Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) Site 2, for long-lead hardware, vendor design support, including transmitters, antennas, & receivers. DARC
Site 2 is the UK one, Cawdor Barracks.
DARC, one of AUKUS's projects, is a space surveillance project with 3 radar sites to track satellites in deep space orbits (36k km from Earth).
Site 1 is in Australia and is the more advanced, site 2 is due to be built at Cawdor Barracks in the UK and site 3 in the continental US
Site 2 is the UK one, Cawdor Barracks.
DARC, one of AUKUS's projects, is a space surveillance project with 3 radar sites to track satellites in deep space orbits (36k km from Earth).
Site 1 is in Australia and is the more advanced, site 2 is due to be built at Cawdor Barracks in the UK and site 3 in the continental US
