West Wales Site To Host U.S. Deep Space Radar

UK Defense Secretary Grant Schapps

UK Defense Secretary Grant Schapps says the global DARC system will "[empower] the UK to detect, track and identify objects in deep space."

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LONDON—A location in west Wales has been selected as one of three potential global sites for the U.S. Space Force’s planned Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC). Cawdor Barracks, formerly a U.K. Royal Air Force flight training base, has been named as the preferred site for the British DARC...

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