{"id":54624,"date":"2020-01-30T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=54624"},"modified":"2020-01-29T11:05:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:05:59","slug":"upgrading-norads-capabilities-with-an-spy-7v1-radar-aka-aegis-ashore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/01\/30\/upgrading-norads-capabilities-with-an-spy-7v1-radar-aka-aegis-ashore\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading NORAD&#8217;s capabilities with AN\/SPY-7(V)1 radar (aka &#8220;Aegis Ashore&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coloneltedcampbell.blog\/2020\/01\/29\/norad-and-mini-nukes-opportunities-not-problems\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Campbell<\/a> on the need to upgrade NORAD radar installations as part of a general refurbishment of the alliance&#8217;s capabilities:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54625\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lockheed-Martin-AN-SPY-7V1-PRNewsfoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54625\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lockheed-Martin-AN-SPY-7V1-PRNewsfoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lockheed-Martin-AN-SPY-7V1-PRNewsfoto.jpg 800w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lockheed-Martin-AN-SPY-7V1-PRNewsfoto-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lockheed-Martin-AN-SPY-7V1-PRNewsfoto-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lockheed-Martin-AN-SPY-7V1-PRNewsfoto-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lockheed Martin\u2019s Solid State Radar has been designated as AN\/SPY-7(V)1 by the US government.<br \/>Image from Lockheed Martin\/PRNewsfoto.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>One of the elements which might be considered in modernizing and enhancing the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) surveillance, warning and control system is a new radar and some people have suggested that the AN\/SPY-7(V)1 radar, sometimes called <em>Aegis Ashore<\/em>, might be a useful (and proven, it is in use, on land, in Japan, and will be fitted on Canada&#8217;s new Type 26 (destroyer-frigate) combat ships) solution. This radar is eminently suitable to be part of an enhanced (conventional) NORAD and of a CANUS continental ballistic missile defence system.<\/p>\n<p>There are many technical (and logistical) advantages to using that radar on both our, Canadian, warships and in a land-based role, too.<\/p>\n<p>The AN\/SPY-7(V)1 radar produces a lot more information than do the current AN\/FPS-117 and AN\/FPS-124 radars which are used in the NORAD role, today, and were built in the 1980s using 1960s and &#8217;70s technology.<\/p>\n<p>(Please don&#8217;t worry about the AN\/*** designations. They are part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designation-systems.net\/usmilav\/electronics.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">very sensible American system<\/a> which was designed to make it simpler to identify both Army and Navy systems (hence the AN\/ at the beginning). The three letters following the AN\/ describe the system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first letter describes the installation. <strong>F<\/strong> means Fixed, on the ground (land) and <strong>S<\/strong> means on a ship;<\/li>\n<li>The second letter means the type of equipment, and <strong>P<\/strong> means radar; and<\/li>\n<li>The third letter means purpose. <strong>S<\/strong> means search (detection and locating) and <strong>Y<\/strong> surveillance and control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thus the <strong>SPY-7<\/strong> is a shipborne surveillance radar and the <strong>FPS-117<\/strong> is fixed (land-based) search radar. The numbers just differentiate one system from another.)<\/p>\n<p>If Canada chooses an advanced radar, like the SPY-7, two engineering problems will need to be addressed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, these things use a lot more power than do the existing radars; and<\/li>\n<li>Second, they produce much, much more information which needs to be &#8220;transported&#8221; instantly, to control centres in places like Canadian Forces Base North Bay, where all the data from all the radars is analyzed and used to effect NORAD&#8217;s mission. If the radar sites are located below (about) 72\u00b0N, as would be the case for coastal radars in BC, NS and NL, this is not a huge problem because the station is within the &#8220;footprint&#8221; of the big, high bandwidth satellites in geostationary orbit. But if the radar site is too far North then a terrestrial (possibly microwave, maybe tropospheric scatter) network (in which each station needs electrical power, too) will have to be installed to move the data to a satellite ground station. (Or a non-geostationary, high bandwidth, satellite system will have to be deployed.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Campbell on the need to upgrade NORAD radar installations as part of a general refurbishment of the alliance&#8217;s capabilities: One of the elements which might be considered in modernizing and enhancing the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) surveillance, warning and control system is a new radar and some people have suggested that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,15,13],"tags":[709,30,1349,805,911],"class_list":["post-54624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-military","category-technology","category-usa","tag-missiledefence","tag-navy","tag-norad","tag-satellite","tag-surveillance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ed2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54626,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54624\/revisions\/54626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}