Fore! Grab your humongous golf club and join me at Pearl
Harbor. No, not Pearl Harbor Country Club – the actual Pearl Harbor.
The X Radar ship is back in town. It’s docked at Pearl
Harbor again for crew rotation, which it undergoes periodically. And no again,
it’s not a golf ball. It’s a $1-billion ballistic missile tracker, the SBX,
which stands for Sea-Based X-Band Radar.
The converted former oil-rig floating structure is now on
limited test and operations status, according to the U.S. Missile Defense
Agency.
I photographed it from my son’s Pearl City lanai this past weekend on Father's Day. If
you’ve got the time and means, check it out close-up. Now’s your chance.
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