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![The Sea-Based Radar (SBX) successfully completed its 15,000-mile journey from Texas (TX) to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (HI), aboard the heavy lift vessel M/V (Motor Vehicle) BLUE MARLIN [not shown]. The SBX will undergo minor modifications at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard prior to departing for Adak, Alaska (AK), later this spring](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn10/L3Bob3RvLzIwMDYvMDEvMzEvdGhlLXNlYS1iYXNlZC1yYWRhci1zYngtc3VjY2Vzc2Z1bGx5LWNvbXBsZXRlZC1pdHMtMTUwMDAtbWlsZS1qb3VybmV5LWZyb20tZTA2NjUxLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/25/webp "The Sea-Based Radar (SBX) successfully completed its 15,000-mile journey from Texas (TX) to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (HI), aboard the heavy lift vessel M/V (Motor Vehicle) BLUE MARLIN [not shown]. The SBX will undergo minor modifications at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard prior to departing for Adak, Alaska (AK), later this spring")
The Sea Based X-Band Radar (SBX) gets an escort from 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 the 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
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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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31/03/2006
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The U.S. National Archives
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