A view of the receiving antennas for a Relocatable Over-The-Horizon Radar (ROTHR) system operated by the Navy's Fleet Surveillance Support Command. ROTHR, an ionospheric backscatter radar, will be able to detect and track air and surface targets as far as 1,800 miles away and has a coverage area of approximately 1.5 million square miles.
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Chesapeake Bay
State: Virginia(VA)
Country: United States Of America(USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Mussi
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/01/1989
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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