The Sea Based X-Band Radar (SBX) is assisted by commercial tugboats, as it departs Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (HI) after a three-month port visit. The SBX arrived to undergo minor modifications, post-transit maintenance and routine inspections. The on-board propulsion system allows SBX to transit to its homeport in Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. The SBX will provide the nation with highly advanced ballistic-missile detection
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Pearl Harbor
State: Hawaii (HI)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: JOC Joe Kane, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
31/03/2006
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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