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Radar station, Titterstone, Clee Hills, Shropshire UK. The large radar dome on the left of the image is for the National Air Traffic Services and the smaller one is Meteorological office weather radar.
Well this is a first!
To any lead foot engineers on BNSF rails, be warned, the radar gun is out! At the west end of the Ballico, CA siding sits something you don't see everyday next to the rails, a portable radar trailer. A westbound BNSF drag freight slowly pulls out of the siding at 13 MPH, well within the speed limit.
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This is my newest build for Andromeda's Gates.
M.A.N.T.I.S. is attacking a Kawashita radar station, to interrupt their interstellar communication.
On Explore/Flickr Top 500, Feb. 19, 2009
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Mactan Airport RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging). Taken strolling down the tarmac -- on just another early morning. Its always like this for years now. The tarmac and the airport is like a weekly routine.
Mactan International Airport
Cebu, Philippines.
The U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Canberra (CAG-2) underway on 9 January 1961. Note her radar arrangement: CXRX was moved forward from the mainmast, SPS-29 was fitted on the mainmast and SPS-13 was fitted aft. Canberra was the only ship ever equipped with SPS-13. USS CANBERRA CAG 2 The "mothballed" heavy cruiser Canberra was redesignated CAG-2 in early January 1952. She was subsequently towed from Bremerton, Washington, to Camden, New Jersey, to begin an extensive conversion to a guided missile heavy cruiser. This work, which took some four years, significantly changed the ship's appearance. It included replacing her after eight-inch gun turret and five-inch gun mount with two launchers for "Terrier" anti-aircraft guided missiles, plus installation of an extensive suite of radars and other electronics.
Canberra, now the second ship of 13,300-ton Boston class, was recommissioned in mid-June 1956. She operated in the Caribbean and Western Atlantic for more than a year, during which time she carried President Dwight D. Eisenhower to a conference at Bermuda, participated in the June 1957 International Naval Review at Hampton Roads, Virginia, and made a Midshipmen training cruise to Brazil. In September 1957 she took part in a major North Atlantic Treaty Organization exercise in the north eastern Atlantic, then steamed south to begin her first tour in the Mediterranean Sea. After returning to the U.S. in March 1958, she served as ceremonial flagship for the selection of the Unknown Soldier of World War II and transported Midshipmen on a summer training cruise to Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands.
In March 1960 Canberra began an eight-month cruise around the World, operating with both the Seventh Fleet in Asian waters and with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Canberra made two six-month deployments to the US Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea leaving Norfolk in February and returning in September of 1962 and another in 1963. She took part in the Cuban Quarantine in the fall of 1962 and, in October 1963, was transferred to the Pacific Fleet. The Vietnam War soon became the focus of her final half-decade. Conducting her first combat deployment since the World War II, she spent the first several months of 1965 off Southeast Asia. A second Vietnam deployment followed in February-June 1966 and a third lasted from October 1966 until April 1967. During these operations her six remaining eight-inch guns were extensively employed for shelling enemy positions in both North and South Vietnam.
Bombardment duty dominated Canberra's next two war tours, in October 1967-April 1968 and from September 1968 to January 1969. This gunnery emphasis, plus the outdated nature of her "Terrier" guided missile system, caused her reclassification back to a heavy cruiser in May 1968, when she regained her original hull number, CA-70. Canberra's missile launchers and guidance radars were removed in 1969, following the end of her last Vietnam cruise. Soon thereafter, in October 1969, she arrived at San Francisco, California, to begin inactivation work. Decommissioned in early February 1970, USS Canberra was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in July 1978 and sold for scrapping in July 1980.
One of the USS Canberra’s propellers was saved and is on display at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum in San Pedro, CA. The USS Canberra's (CAG-2) ship's bell, a distinctive emblem of her proud career, was presented to the Government and Commonwealth of Australia in Sept of 2001 to mark the 50th anniversary of the ANZUS Treaty Alliance. It is now on display at the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia.
United States - US Navy (USN), Northrop Grumman E-2D Hawkeye, AB-604, 8559, over New York, USA. December, 2022. Copyright Tom Turner
This is the weather event that started off this weeks postings related to sunsets under a cloud layer and what can happen. Sunday evening a storm cell was showing on weather radar as moving slightly South of Grimsby, Ontario in such a location and direction as to potentially provide some dramatic light over a horse farm’s paddock atop the Niagara Escarpment on Wolverton Road just South of town. The potential for a dramatic light opportunity arose because the cloud layer above me was associated with a storm that ended further West leaving an open gap along the horizon (as seen from this area). I had pictured a photo of this particular paddock because this early in the Spring, the small pond was still full of water and would reflect any sky colour that might form. I headed up there and set up along the fence line and waited. One small rain shower later, the sun cooperated and provided this image of the farm, pond and colour-dappled clouds lit from below. Sadly, it turned out that another cloud bank was sitting further West (not visible here) and my hoped-for fully coloured base of the cloud layer above me failed to materialize. Take what you can get and hope for another opportunity. - JW
Date Taken: 2016-05-03
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 12-24mm lense set to 24mm, ISO100, WB set to daylight, Aperture priority mode, f/8.0, 1/10 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: scale image up to 9000x6000, enable Graduated Neutral Density/GND filter tool and darken sky to better balance its tones with the nearby foreground, set exposure to about 2/3 stop over as-shot, boost vibrance, slightly boost contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, sharpen, enable micro-contrast, enable noise reduction, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: adjust colour balance to reduce slight green cast, boost saturation overall and then decrease green channel saturation, use dodge-burn tool to locally brighten the horse in the middle of the frame, enable the shadows-highlights tool and significantly recover the highlights and then pull up shadows (crazy wide dynamic range that is simply impossible to manage entirely), sharpen slightly, save, scale to 6000x4000 (my preferred working size for prepping images intended to be posted online), sharpen slightly, save, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale to 1800 wide for posting, sharpen, save.
ilford delta 100 scan with plustek 8100 ; camera is Alsaphot Le Maine Is and lens is Som Berthiot 45mm f/2.8
This station can form terrain or an objective.
The grounds can be modified to match the surrounding flora...
This picture was edited to remove the arm from it by A Charmed Life/Sharon.
Thanks Sharon :)
Interestingness highest position #15
Duga-3 (NATO reporting name Steel Yard) was a Soviet over-the-horizon radar system. It was developed for the Soviet ABM early-warning network. The system operated from 1976 to 1989. Its distinctive and mysterious shortwave radio signal came to be known in the west as the Russian Woodpecker.
Two stations of Duga-3 were installed: a western system around Chernobyl and an eastern system in Siberia.
The transmitter for the western Duga-3 was located a few kilometers southwest of Chernobyl (south of Minsk, northwest of Kiev). The receiver was located about 50 km northeast of Chernobyl (just west of Chernihiv, south of Gomel).
The Soviets had been working on early warning radar for their anti-ballistic missile systems through the 1960s, but most of these had been line-of-sight systems that were useful for raid analysis and interception only. None of these systems had the capability to provide early warning of a launch, which would give the defenses time to study the attack and plan a response. At the time the Soviet early-warning satellite network was not well developed, and there were questions about their ability to operate in a hostile environment including anti-satellite efforts. An over-the-horizon radar sited in the USSR would not have any of these problems, and work on such a system for this associated role started in the late 1960s. Duga-3 could detect submarines and missile launches in all of Europe and the Eastern coast of United States.
The first experimental system, Duga-1, was built outside Mykolaiv in Ukraine, successfully detecting rocket launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 2,500 kilometers. This was followed by the prototype Duga-2, built on the same site, which was able to track launches from the far east and submarines in the Pacific Ocean as the missiles flew towards Novaya Zemlya. Both of these radar systems were aimed east and were fairly low power, but with the concept proven work began on an operational system. The new Duga-3 systems used a transmitter and receiver separated by about 60 km.
A 35 man (plus guides) trip to the Ukraine exploring Chernobyl, the village, Duga 3, Pripyat and Kiev including Maidan (Independence Square) and observing the peaceful protests underway.
Some new faces, some old, made new friends and generally we were in our elements.
Rhetorical question but did we have a blast? You bet!
Amazing group, top guys. Till the next time!
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Interestingness#61 7/1/06
Radar Hill is the memorial site for the Harel Brigade. During the War of Independence, the Harel Brigade tried but failed to capture this site. The hill was captured during the Six Day War (1967). The local Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim was established in 1920, and at the beginning of the War of Independence it served as the base of the Harel Brigade soldiers. In January of 1948, members of the Palmach who fell in the battles on the road to Jerusalem were buried along the side of the Kibbutz cemetery. Most of these fallen soldiers were from the Harel Brigade and some from the Etzioni Brigade, which defended the city of Jerusalem.
Radar Hill is the memorial site for the Harel Brigade. During the War of Independence, the Harel Brigade tried but failed to capture this site. The hill was captured during the Six Day War (1967). The local Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim was established in 1920, and at the beginning of the War of Independence it served as the base of the Harel Brigade soldiers. In January of 1948, members of the Palmach who fell in the battles on the road to Jerusalem were buried along the side of the Kibbutz cemetery. Most of these fallen soldiers were from the Harel Brigade and some from the Etzioni Brigade, which defended the city of Jerusalem.
à compter de ce jour, 1er avril 2015, les radars seront annoncés de cette manière !
Sortie du village de Pontaix, département de la drôme.
Light trails from traffic on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia.
This type of photography can be dangerous work...lol. I was on an overpass and had to shoot the image through an opening in the fence. Unfortunately, some of the fence was captured on both the left and right sides, and I had to crop the image.
The title of this image is from the classic rock song "Radar Love" by Golden Earring. " I've been drivin' all night my hands wet on the wheel.."
at the Elbe river in Cuxhaven. Yes, it's a radar tower, not a helicopter :-)))
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