A $1.5 billion back-scatter radar array, built in the 1980s on a 1,200 stretch o

Authors

Colin Sargent

Source

Portland Monthly

Date

5-1-2005

Pages

26-27

Abstract

A $1.5 billion back-scatter radar array, built in the 1980s on a 1,200 stretch of Air Force property in Moscow, Maine, is being disassembled this spring at taxpayer expense. The over-three-mile-long structure is sensitive to incoming nuclear threats 2,000 miles away.

Subjects

Radar

Recommended Citation

Sargent, Colin, "A $1.5 billion back-scatter radar array, built in the 1980s on a 1,200 stretch o" (2005). Maine News Index – Portland Monthly. 779.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/news_portmonthly/779