He says this is one reason he recommended scrapping plans to build a sophisticated radar system in the Czech Republic and installing ground-based interceptors in Poland.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

The Bush-era program would have placed ground-based interceptors in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic to counter any long-range nuclear threat posed by Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Under his plan the large centralized radar facility proposed for the Czech Republic will not be needed, nor will the earlier generation of ground-based interceptors planned for Poland.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Every commercial flight that takes off from the United States is currently monitored by a radar-based ground system that has been in place since WWII.

BBC: The futurist: The US�� new air traffic control system

What is ground-based radar telling us about the missiles?

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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.

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