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The armed forces are investing 21 million euros in aerial surveillance. According to Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner (ÖVP), the money will be used to renovate the Kolomansberg radar station in the Upper Austria-Salzburg border area.
AUSTRIA. The radar station is part of the “Goldhaube” military air surveillance system. Around 19 million euros will go towards the acquisition of a new system and another two million are needed to adapt the infrastructure.
“The eyes of the republic”
“The Goldhaube system and its stations are the eyes of the republic,” Tanner said during a visit to the radar station on Thursday. Modernization will ensure “that we can react in time to threats from the air,” said the defense minister.
Essential role
The Kolomansberg Radar Station has been in operation since 1968 and plays an essential role in passive aerial surveillance. The main task of the system is to collect and generate data on flight movements, explains the armed forces. The station uses what is known as a primary radar system for this and is therefore based on the principle of location of the background beam (echo principle). It was said that non-cooperative flying objects can also be recognized by three-dimensional positioning. Foreign planes that want to fly over Austrian airspace are turned away once a week, according to the army. Mainly due to the lack of overflight permits.
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