Fylingdales Radar Upgrades to be Finished This Year

Upgrades to an U.S. early warning radar at the British Fylingdales air station are expected to be completed by the end of this year, the head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said last week (see GSN, Aug. 3, 2006).

“By the end of the year, we’ll have the Fylingdales radar in the U.K. and that will give us the first capability to defend ourselves against that Middle Eastern threat,” Lt. Gen. Henry Obering said, according to Inside Missile Defense.

The project is already nearly a year behind schedule.

Once work is finished, the improved radar at the Royal Air Force base would give the U.S. Ground-based Midcourse Defense system “fire control access and increased early warning capability for potential threat objects launched from north and east” of the continental United States, according to the Missile Defense Agency (John Liang, Inside Missile Defense, Jan. 17).

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