Former Eldorado Air Force Station AN/FPS-115 PAVE PAWS Radar

USA / Texas / Eldorado /
 military, radar station
Operated by the 8th Missile Warning Squadron (later redesignated as the 8th Space Warning Squadron) from 1987 until 1995. The site was mothballed and all equipment sent to Clear AFS, AK to upgrade the former BMEWS to the new AN/FPS-120 Solid-State Phased Array Radar System (SSPARS), which became operational on 31 January 2001.

Photos of the mothballed PAVE PAWS site: www.radomes.org/museum/recent/EldoradoAFSPAVEPAWSTX.htm...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAVE_PAWS
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Coordinates:   30°58'46"N   100°33'8"W
This article was last modified 14 years ago