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SBX

IOC: 2005
Total Production: 1
Also Known As: XBR

Origin: United States of America

Contractor/s: Boeing and Raytheon

Description: The Raytheon Sea-Based X-band (SBX or XBR) radar is a key element of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) System (GMDS). It comprises a X-band radar antenna sitting on the top of a modified oil-drilling platform named the SBX-1. It will provide ballistic missile tracking information as well as target and countermeasures discrimination for the GMD interceptor missiles and other ballistic missile defense systems being developed by the United States Department of Defense.

SBX radar system will be able to track, discriminate and assess a variety of ballistic missile threats passing data to elements of the ballistic missile defense systems. The ballistic missile systems will ultimately provide this critical information to the ground- and sea-based interceptors which will destroy the threat. The SBX will continue relaying updated targeting information after the interceptor launches its kill-vehicle vehicle toward the incoming ballistic missile.

SBX-1 floating platform is a modified oil-drilling vessel, measures 240 feet wide (73 meters) and 390 feet long (118 meters). It includes a power plant, bridge and control rooms, living quarters, storage areas and the infrastructure necessary to support the massive X-band radar. The X-band radar, sitting on top of the vessel, is the largest, most sophisticated phased array, electro-mechanically steered X-band radar in the world, consisting of thousands of antennae driven by transmit/receive modules.

Integration work into SBX-1 sea-based platform was completed by a Boeing-led team in Corpus Christi, Texas, in early April 2005. The SBX system is expected to enter service supporting GMD in 2005 at its homeport of Adak, Alaska, in the Aleutian Islands. From Adak, SBX will be capable of moving throughout the Pacific Ocean.

Applications:

Air Defense Systems

GMD Block 2004

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Dimensions
Height: 85 meter
Length: 119 meter
Width: 73 meter

Weight
Weight: 50,000 ton

:: News ::

There are 8 news between
4 Apr 2005
and
12 May 2011

Boeing to Begin Maintenance Work on SBX Missile Defense Radar US Missile Defense Intercepts Target in Most Complex Test to Date Boeing, Missile Defense Agency Successfully Complete Missile Defense Sensor Integration Test Raytheon to Operate and Sustain Missile Defense Agency X-Band Radars Ground-Based Missile Defense Successfully Intercepts Target Missile Boeing and Missile Defense Agency Complete Successful Test of Sea-Based Radar Sea-Based X-Band Radar Completes Fine Calibration Testing SBX Radar Completes Integration Onto its Floating Platform

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Last Updated:
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FOC: Full Operating Capability
CEP: Circular Error Probable
Comm: Commissioning Date
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