Unalaska, AK – The Missile Defense Agency announced today that its Sea-based X-band Radar has reached the Aleutian Island chain. The radar, known as the SBX, left Pearl Harbor a month ago. It is the largest radar of its kind, standing 280 feet high, and is part of a $43 billion surveillance program overseen by Missile Defense.

The SBX is slated to be home-ported near Adak Island starting this summer, once its moorings are completed. In Unalaska, KIAL's Charles Homans reports.