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Raytheon is also set to build a new so-called X-band radar for the Army and Navy at a cost of nearly $600 million, the budget proposes.
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The X-band radar station, located some 400 miles west of the Iranian border, will be a linchpin of a new missile defense system.
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In the revamped plan, the Czech Republic was going to receive basically a computer room - a room full of computers - whose funding would be about $2 million, instead of a giant X-band radar that cost about $100 million," said Papic."
US Missile Defense Plan Goes Ahead Without Czech Support 2011
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There is not much fuzziness about Japan having Aegis warships outfitted with American SM-3 and THAD missiles systems cruising in the South China sea, or Taiwan receiving shipments of Patriot missile batteries and X-band radar.
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Israel's national missile defenses -- which include the U.S. deployment in Israel of an advanced X-band radar system and the more than 100 American military personnel who man it -- will be an integral part of a larger missile defense spanning Europe, the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf to help protect U.S. forces and allies.
Robert D. Blackwill: Israel And The U.S.: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship Robert D. Blackwill 2011
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Israel's national missile defenses -- which include the U.S. deployment in Israel of an advanced X-band radar system and the more than 100 American military personnel who man it -- will be an integral part of a larger missile defense spanning Europe, the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf to help protect U.S. forces and allies.
Robert D. Blackwill: Israel And The U.S.: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship Robert D. Blackwill 2011
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with their Turkish counterparts on the sidelines of the NATO meeting Thursday to discuss whether Turkey will allow a high-powered X-band radar on its territory.
European missile shield plan is expected to gain support Craig Whitlock 2010
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Israel's national missile defenses -- which include the U.S. deployment in Israel of an advanced X-band radar system and the more than 100 American military personnel who man it -- will be an integral part of a larger missile defense spanning Europe, the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf to help protect U.S. forces and allies.
Robert D. Blackwill: Israel And The U.S.: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship Robert D. Blackwill 2011
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The system, which includes a truck-mounted launcher, interceptors, and X-band radar, is supposed to be capable of shooting down ballistic missiles both inside and just outside the atmosphere.
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Waltham, Massachusetts-based Raytheon Corporation built the powerful X-band radar now based in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, which will be moved to the Czech Republic.
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