By GI Korea on June 23rd, 2009 at 1:11 pm

Picture of the Day: SBX Comes to Port

• Unsatisfied LG DACOM
  6:39 am on June 23rd, 2009 1

  It can spot a baseball in Baltimore from the middle of the South Pacific. How well can it track a nK missile?

  Also, compare and contrast these two videos:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpHBWcpu7Kw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5JrnnsEYnw

• Dino
  10:00 am on June 23rd, 2009 2

  Awwwwwwwwwwwwesoooooommmmmmmmme…..

• Teadrinker
  12:57 pm on June 23rd, 2009 3

  That picture was taken on Jan 9, 2006.

  http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=31090

• gerry
  3:10 pm on June 23rd, 2009 4

  I don't believe the SBX can see over the horizon. But then again it was designed to be used against ICBMs. So placement is of importance,

  When I was stationed at Shemya Alaska (lucky me) in 1981, it was said that the Cobra Dane (phased array radar) could read the writing on a basketball over the Ural mountains. So a baseball over Baltimore 28 years later may actually be a conservative figure.

  The Cobra Ball (a KC135 Specially equipped) allowed the Cobra Dane to look down over the horizon. To include North Korea and most of China as well.

  As far as tracking, the Cobra Dane was tracking 8,000 space objects as well, some very small. I would be surprized if the SBX wasn't significantly better.

• GI Korea
  12:00 am on June 24th, 2009 5

  Leave it to the Korean media to steal a picture without attribution.

• GI Korea
  12:02 am on June 24th, 2009 6

  Along with Cobra Dane there is now an FBX radar situated in Shariki, Japan. With the FBX, Cobra Dane, SBX, Aegis, GMD, and THAAD PACOM has a layered suite of radars across the northern Pacific to protect Alaska and Hawaii.

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