America will not sell Taiwan integrated air-defence and early-warning systems, though it did lean on Israel recently to cancel the sale of an early-warning radar to China.
The US announced plans to deploy 14 additional missile interceptors in Alaska, and an early-warning radar in Japan, on Friday.
It also has plans to add an early-warning radar system in western Japan, while South Korea has pledged to speed up the introduction of its own missile defense systems.
Bishop, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, is accused of telling her secrets about U.S. nuclear weapons, missile defenses, war plans, early warning radar systems and other issues.
When boatloads of immigrants began arriving on beaches near Gibraltar in the 1990s, it installed an early-warning radar system based on one that Israel developed to stop seaborne Palestinian guerrilla raids.
Germany, which abstained at the U.N. on Thursday, will not participate in the Libyan campaign, but Berlin will probably send more early-warning radar aircraft to Afghanistan so that American planes there can then be used in the effort against Gadhafi.
Mr Haggerty reckons this would require (for openers) striking around 450 targets, including more than 20 command, control and early-warning radar centres, 150 SAM sites, 205 aircraft shelters, 32 additional air-base targets, 27 surface-to-surface (SS) missile batteries and 12 anti-ship cruise-missile batteries.
If operated from a single site (perhaps in Grand Forks, North Dakota) in conjunction with one or more new, ground-based radars and other, existing early-warning radar systems, these weapons would have the ability to provide some protection to most of the continental United States.
He also announced the military will work with Japan to increase radar capability to improve early warning and tracking of any missile launched from North Korea.
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The deployment of the Doppler radar system in the early 1990s by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration extended tornado warning lead times from five minutes to their now-annual average of 12 to 14 minutes.
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