[ARCHIVED THREAD] - A critical NOTAM warning has been issued to airmen for Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. (Page 3 of 4)
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Quoted: Do those NOTAMS get updated? These are currently on the page M0009/24 NOTAMR M0179/23 Q) ZAK/QXXXX/IV/NBO/A/000/999/0843N16743E005 A) PKWA B) 2401072217 C) 2403062359 E) ALL ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES MAKE SOUTH TRAFFIC ONLY TO AVOID EXTREME RADIATION HAZARDS. OVERFLIGHT OF THE ISLAND NORTH OF THE RWY IS PROHIBITED. M0008/24 NOTAMR M0180/23 Q) ZAK/QXXXX/IV/NBO/A/000/999/0843N16743E005 A) PKWA B) 2401072216 C) 2403062359 E) CONTACT BASE OPERATIONS ON 126.2 WITHIN 50NM OF BUCHOLZ AAF. CONTACT BASE OPS PRIOR TO DEPARTURE DUE TO RADIATION HAZARD DECONFLICTION . They don't have the "risk of immediate death" verbiage The newsbots would never make things up for clicks. |
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Quoted: Not sure how a fixed site can conduct space radar all over the world.......... unless the earth was....... flat. You can design radar to see over the horizon, many early warning radar systems do that. But to track space junk you don’t need to see over the horizon because, wait for it…. The space junk is moving and orbits the earth. You measure the orbit when it passes within sight of your radar and record the orbital parameters. |
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Quoted: It is not well known outside of UFO circles. Kwajalein is the landing site for the Grey's from Sirius. They return every eight years and seek to expand .gov contacts. It is isolated to the extent nobody can easily get there. The last thing anyone wants to be spotted is a 100 meter flying saucer.... Attached File |
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Quoted: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/space-fence.html The World's Most Advanced Radar In March of 2020 the United States Space Force (USSF) declared operational acceptance and initial operational capability of the Space Fence radar on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Space Fence, now the world's most advanced radar, provides uncued detection, tracking and accurate measurement of space objects, including satellites and orbital debris, primarily in low-earth orbit (LEO). The new radar permits the detection of much smaller microsatellites and debris than current systems. It also significantly improves the timeliness with which operators can detect space events. The flexibility and sensitivity of the system also provides coverage of objects in geosynchronous orbit while maintaining the surveillance fence. Before Space Fence, the Space Surveillance Network (SSN) tracked more than 20,000 objects. Now, the catalog size is expected to increase significantly over time. Space Fence also detects closely spaced objects, breakups, maneuvers and launches. According to the Space Force, the system is the most sensitive search radar in the SSN, capable of detecting objects in orbit as small as a marble in low Earth orbit (LEO). |
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Quoted: You can design radar to see over the horizon, many early warning radar systems do that. But to track space junk you don’t need to see over the horizon because, wait for it…. The space junk is moving and orbits the earth. You measure the orbit when it passes within sight of your radar and record the orbital parameters. Quoted: Quoted: Not sure how a fixed site can conduct space radar all over the world.......... unless the earth was....... flat. You can design radar to see over the horizon, many early warning radar systems do that. But to track space junk you don’t need to see over the horizon because, wait for it…. The space junk is moving and orbits the earth. You measure the orbit when it passes within sight of your radar and record the orbital parameters. It seems to imply it can detected geosynchronous objects. If that only applies to line of sight to the radar, why even mention that? And no, you cant use "over the horizon" radar to magically curve around earth once in space, because OTH radar uses our ionosphere to accomplish that task. These objects are too far away. |
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Quoted: I see OP and our favorite Texan newsjockey are in a competition to see who can make more errors. Bottery shenanigans If you're going to say someone is wrong, shouldn't you have to post what they're saying that's wrong with proof? Or, can you just talk out of your ass whenever you like? It's BS when someone says crap like this and then walks off. |
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Quoted: couple of days ago
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDg5n11XAAAqcfU?format=jpg&name=medium A neighbors daughter was engaged to a guy that flew on the sniffer plane. What a gigantic douch. Hopefully he's better at his AFSC than being a human being. |
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Quoted: Lizzo was there performing for the USO and had too many beans in her chili dinner. Quoted: Quoted: For eeeeeeeeeenteresting. Something gonna go boom? Or some sort of oopsies going to bring out godzirrah? Lizzo was there performing for the USO and had too many beans in her chili dinner. So.. something gonna go boom then. 
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Quoted: Not sure if this is sarcasm but given the inverse square law applies to radio waves that would be one hell of a transmitter to be dangerous at 50nm. Like warming up the atmosphere to an obvious and dramatic extent. Either a bs cover for something else, massive ionizing radiation release...which seems unlikely but I don't know what's stored there, or a directed energy test of some type. I’m going with cover story. The new RADAR array must have some physical properties that gives something away. |
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Quoted: As I understand it, that is about four hundred miles away. Quoted: Quoted: I wonder if they had a criticality event in that big ol containment vessel. As I understand it, that is about four hundred miles away. That's what I get for not fact checking. Someone posted the dome and I ASSUMED they were related. Hey, I did verify the original notam |
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I don't think radiation = nuclear in this case. There's a lot of radars out there already. Could be a new radar or other directed energy system under test at the range. If it is in face nuclear it probably means we've managed to get someone's FMS and are playing around with it. |
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Quoted: That's what I get for not fact checking. Someone posted the dome and I ASSUMED they were related. Hey, I did verify the original notam Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I wonder if they had a criticality event in that big ol containment vessel. As I understand it, that is about four hundred miles away. That's what I get for not fact checking. Someone posted the dome and I ASSUMED they were related. Hey, I did verify the original notam It's the only one I found in my search, and it's on Runit Island, part of Enewetak Atoll. |
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Quoted: Not sure if this is sarcasm but given the inverse square law applies to radio waves that would be one hell of a transmitter to be dangerous at 50nm. Like warming up the atmosphere to an obvious and dramatic extent. Either a bs cover for something else, massive ionizing radiation release...which seems unlikely but I don't know what's stored there, or a directed energy test of some type. |
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Quoted: Ruh roh... Gojira inbound. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/32329/d3c02f9a8a5acfcf7f7913bf61da9132_jpg-3092083.JPG This right here......................... !!!!!!!! He's back........................! But seriously ............. who f--g cares. But then this is GD. |
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Quoted: Almost makes you wonder if they are testing a ground based energy weapon that could take out low orbit satellites.. if that's even possible through the atmosphere. Idk It is. Lasers are "ununed" then as they travel they are distorted back to the original beam. I know a guy that spent years doing that for the AF. Basically calculating environmental effect/degradation of the beam. Then modifying it so it's still powerful |
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Quoted: Maybe they are looking at something interesting and have the radar cranked to 11 https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/183699/IMG_4237_jpeg-3092091.JPG This, since you call to deconflict, ie, they turn it off for you. Kharn |
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Quoted: This is in our test range if I'm reading it right. Quoted: Quoted: Nork gonna Nork? |
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Fun fact: John C. Woods, who was the American hangman for the Nuremburg defendents, accidentally electrocuted himself to death while stationed on the Marshall Islands. He lied about his nonexistent extensive experience as an executioner, and botched a whole bunch of those executions (which I'm not going to pretend that I care about). |
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I bet it's radar related. Plus if there's even a random low probability of a radar test hurting somebody you know they're going to issue something just as CYA. Quoted: That looks like a really shitty place to be stationed. I've known a couple folks that were working out of there and loved it. They said they also got a lot of good vacation trips jumping on Space A going anywhere. |
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Quoted: Complete guess, but the way it comes across makes me think it might be some kind of directed energy weapon tests. Which would be inline with a missile defense test site. Google "laser driven proton beam" for some light reading... +1 Some high-powered laser (visible or not) under testing. |
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Quoted: You can design radar to see over the horizon, many early warning radar systems do that. But to track space junk you don’t need to see over the horizon because, wait for it…. The space junk is moving and orbits the earth. You measure the orbit when it passes within sight of your radar and record the orbital parameters. We also have bases located around the world that optically observe the Russian and Chinese satellites. There are, of course, geostationary satellites in the Clarke Belt that are as equally as interesting as those that move about. 
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Quoted: Tropical and thousands of miles from the vast majority of people on earth? Where can I buy a ticket? Walk down to the US Navy recruiter and volunteer for duty on Diego Garcia. Or the merchant marines have a dozen of the pre-deployment ships out there still I'd bet. There was a crew of a couple hundred civilians between all the ships possibly. They made mega-money working 10-month contracts for the contractor there. I was stationed there in the 80s and it was amazing. Amazingly isolated and beautiful. |
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I don't think it is possible for a breach of containment/isolation/internment/etc at Kwajelein to create a hazard anywhere close to radiologically dangerous. About the biggest hazard would be if you blew it the hell up and put a lot of rock in the air. The last test kaboom was in 1958 and residual activity after so long is almost undetectable. so, something else. |