Converted troop transport is now most heavily instrumented tracking station on Atlantic Missile Range, and is designed to watch ICBM as it plunges through earth's atmosphere into sea, and to observe intricate characteristics of flight that may tell difference between warhead and decoys; visible on superstructure are 3 30-40-ft wide radar dishes mounted atop massive steel towers, 2 dome-like tracking structures, multitiered forward bridge house and weather station and rocket launcher aft; work was done by Bethlehem Steel Co Shipbldg Div; sister ship is nearing completion; both have length of 520 ft, beam 71 1/2 ft, and sea speed of more than 17 knots.


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    Title :

    General H.H. Arnold -- World's largest, most sophisticated missile-tracking ship


    Additional title:

    Mar Eng


    Published in:

    Marine Engineering ; 68 , n 6 ; p 42-43


    Publication date :

    1963


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :