Pentagon fields long-range radar in Alaska for missile threats

The new radar is based in Interior Alaska and is meant to provide information for interceptors based there and in California.

By Mike Stone, Reuters December 7, 2021
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon completed military construction and will begin testing a long-range radar for a homeland missile defense system that can track intercontinental ballistic missiles as well as next generation threats such as hypersonic weapons, the Pentagon said on Monday.

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