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AN/FPS-35 Radar Tower and Antenna

AN/FPS-35 Radar Tower and Antenna

The AN/FPS-35 at Montauk was the last to operate in Jan 1981 and the radar tower is the only one that still has an antenna on the roof and contains some of the radar set equipment and...
AN/FPS-35 Radar Tower and Antenna

AN/FPS-35 Radar Tower and Antenna

Montauk Point Air Force Station began operation as a SAGE site in 1958. The search radar was upgraded to an FPS-35 in December of 1960, but problems with interference delayed its operational date until 1962. In 1963 one of the FPS-6 height finder radars was replace...
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