Radar Dome


These highly secret and secure buildings were all-purpose communications centers housing sensitive communications equipment that transmitted either pulse or doppler radio waves at an approaching weapon. The reflections are received by the radar dome, processed electronically, and converted into images on a series of sensitive screens. Pulse radar is used primarily for aircraft and naval navigation and for military applications.

In Doppler (or continuous-wave radar) two antennas are used - one to transmit and the other to receive. Doppler radar cannot determine distance but can determine accurately the velocity of approaching weapons.

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